Eighteen months ago, kpmg Consulting was securely tethered to the accounting arm of KPMG llp and mired in the inbred atmosphere of a Big Five consulting firm. Hundreds of partners ran their parts of the business as separate fiefdoms, all under the sheltering canopy of KPMG. No more. The consultants split from the accountants in January, 2000, and went public a year later, becoming the first of the Big Five firms-but not the last-to transform itself from a private partnership into a public company.
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