Career
He conducted studies and business investigations for clients as varied as the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. The Canadian Pacific Railway. Chicago"s Union Stock Yards and Transit Company.
And the Photographers Association of the United States.
World War I caused a temporary hiatus in his career as an entrepreneur, but not in his work as an analyst and solver of business problems. Drafted into the Army as a private to do personnel work in September 1917, he soon rose to the rank of major and worked with the War Department in Washington, District of Columbia, to reorganize and perfect the business methods of its various bureaus.
He left the Army in March 1919, ready to turn his business acumen to the service of bankers, manufacturers, advertising agencies, wholesalers, sales managers, publishers, real estate operators, public service cooperations, and other enterprises. Booz focused on identifying, diagnosing, and recommending solutions to business problems.
Between the two World Wars, Booz continued to pursue his vision of dedicated service to businesses.
In 1940, he responded to a request from the United States Secretary of the Navy to help the Navy prepare for war, thus beginning what turned out to be Booz Allen"s long-term and continuing service to the federal government. Booz retired partially from the firm in 1946 and died of a stroke in October 1951. At that time, the company newsletter published a tribute paid to Editor Booz by one of the staff at an annual conference in 1947:
"I admire his deep sincerity, his high ideals, his uniformity of analysis, his ability to give and to take, his courage, his capacity for absorbing new tools, his burning desire to build soundly, his deep rooted conviction regarding the value of organization, his philosophical grasp of the implication of growth and perpetuation.".