Monitor Group (informally Monitor, legally Monitor Company Group LP) was a multinational management consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States and with 27 offices in 26 major cities around the world. It was founded in 1983 by six entrepreneurs with ties to the Harvard Business School, including Michael Porter. On November 7, 2012, Monitor Group filed for bankruptcy protection as part of a deal to be acquired by Deloitte.
Monitor specialized in providing strategy consultation services to the senior management of organizations and governments. It helped clients address a variety of management areas, including Strategy, Innovation, Organization and Leadership, Economic Development and Security, and Marketing and Pricing.
Monitor's main competitors were Bain & Company, Booz & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, A.T. Kearney and McKinsey & Company.
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