Booz Allen Hamilton
Look around Boston and you'll witness a city built on revolution. A 200-foot-tall granite obelisk in the heart of Charlestown memorializes the Battle of Bunker Hill, where in 1775, British troops endured a pyrrhic victory in temporarily staving off the Colonial rebellion. Float south just a bit and you'll land at Griffin's Wharf, where the Sons of Liberty once dumped some 342 chests of tea off a British ship, a coordinated act of disobedience that forever raised the Harbor's water levels.
Two hundred forty years later, and revolution still hangs in the air. Somewhere in between Samuel Adams architecting American republicanism and modern Americans guzzling 2.5 million barrels of Samuel Adams beer annually, Boston established itself as a leading city. Boston is the world's big data hub, and ground zero for not just the American Revolution, but also the innovation revolution in modern analytics and data science.
It's also where Booz Allen is revolutionizing the way it works, within a cradle of regional influence, entrepreneurship, and excitement. In Boston, we're charging ahead with the same bravery in data science that our founding forefathers built a nation upon.
Times Square is utter madness. It's busy, bright, tall, loud, fast, shiny, dirty, gaudy, wild, flashy, and frighteningly foreign. To me, as an out-of-towner from Washington, D.C. with sidewalk claustrophobia and a sporadic fear of heights, this place would be downright intolerable without caffeine.
But here I stand, laptop bag over shoulder and dark roast in hand, walking west along 42nd Street from Grand Central heading towards Bryant Park, marveling at those around me who have internalized this madness as sheer routine. I'm out of place, but nonetheless, I'm here to figure it out. What is Booz Allen doing in the middle of Manhattan?
