A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm, focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda issues for the world's leading organizations across all major industries and sectors. It was founded in 1926, and its head office is in Chicago, Illinois. The firm is regularly ranked in Consulting Magazine's annual list of the "Best Firms to Work For" and among the Top 10 in the Vault Consulting 50 rankings.

The firm operated within the United States since its founding in 1926, until 1964 when it opened its first international office in Düsseldorf.

A.T. Kearney's industry specialties include aerospace and defense, automotive, communications, consumer and retail, financial institutions, public sector, high technology, pharmaceuticals, health care, energy and utilities. Major service lines are in supply chain management, strategy, mergers, innovation, complexity, capital projects, cost management, strategic IT, transformation, manufacturing, marketing and sales, procurement and sustainability.

A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, and is composed of MC/producer Q-Tip, MC Phife Dawg aka Phife Diggy (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 1991. Along with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective. Their innovative fusing of hip hop and jazz has had a lasting impact on hip hop music, helping to expand the art of hip hop production. Many of their songs, such as "Bonita Applebum", "Can I Kick It?", "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo", "Scenario", "Check the Rhime", "Jazz (We've Got)", "Award Tour" and "Electric Relaxation" are regarded as classics by the hip hop community.

They released five albums between 1990 and 1998. The first three LPs were highly acclaimed, but the group disbanded in 1998. In 2006, the group reunited and toured the U.S., and planned to release an album after some works in the studio. The group is regarded as iconic pioneers of alternative hip hop music, having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists. John Bush of Allmusic called them "the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s," while the editors of About.com ranked them #4 on their list of the "25 Best Rap Groups of All Time." In 2005, A Tribe Called Quest received a Special Achievement Award at the Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. In 2007, the group was formally honored at the 4th VH1 Hip Hop Honors.

Paul A. Laudicina(born August 9,1949) is the chairman of the board of A.T. Kearney. He was elected as the manager officer of A.T. Kearney in September 2006 after the management buyout of the firm from EDS and was re-elected to a second term in 2009. Paul was also the founder and Managing Director of A.T. Kearney's Global Business Policy Council, a long-standing strategic service for CEOs.
Paul is also the author of numerous articles and books and is a renowned speaker on various economic issues. He also featured as one of the "Top 25 Most Influential Consultants" by Consulting Magazine in 2005 and 2007.

He holds an Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago.

His career has included positions as Research associate for the UN Center for Economic and Social Information, Associate Fellow of the Overseas Development Council, Legislative Director in the United States Senate, and Vice President of SRI International(Stanford Research Institute), where he founded its Policy division.