Abstract
Mars & Co is a consulting firm specializing in strategic management. The company was established in 1979 by Dominique Mars who is the current president. Mars & Company is a limited liability company (LLC) which started in France with a capital of $17,600.
Dominique Mars was born in Neuilly Sur Seine (France). He completed his schooling at Centrale. In 1969, he went to Harvard. By the end of his studies, he started to work for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
When he was 31 years old, Mars became one of the 17 vice-presidents of the Boston Consulting Group. In 1979, he left BCG because he felt it was essential for a strategy consulting firm to guarantee the exclusivity of its services to each client. Consequently, BCG would have had to select its clients.
Dominique Mars couldn't steer his partners in this direction, so he left BCG and came to Paris and established Mars & Co. The headquarters of his society is in Paris in an ancient mansion called Raymond Poincare.
In 1979, Mars & Co settled firstly in Paris which is now the headquarters of the company. Considering that the United States was the reference of the consulting market, the company decided to have one of its centres in New York in 1982. Then offices in London (in 1986) and in San Francisco (in 1994) were established.
More recently, two new offices were built in Tokyo (2000) and in Shanghai (2005).
Nowadays, Mars & Co, as the other leaders of the consulting market, is consequently settled in the more developed areas of the world (countries of the triad and China).
