Talk:Korn Ferry

Sources

The Forbes article shows that K/F is one of the "big four", so I'll put a sentence in using that to assert notability. I'll try some wording based on their claimed expertise to flesh out what they do. See what you think. I've removed the advert template - please feel free to put it back if you think the article is not sufficiently NPOV. --RexxS (talk) 06:40, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Korn/Ferry News & Media

I removed these from the article. They need to be integrated into the article text with citations. A section listing news coverage and mentions isn't appropriate. • BusinessWeek: Korn/Ferry CEO Gary Burnison talks to BusinessWeek about the Global Talent War[1]
• Associated Press: Sequels to iconic CEOs rarely as good as original 01.15.09 [2]
• Boardmember.com: Board Recruitment Tips for Obama's Cabinet Search 12.01.08 [3]
• The Economist: CFOs and the Financial Crisis 10.30.08 [4]
• Forbes.com: Talent Search 11.14.08 [5]
• BNet: 5 Tactics for Landing a Board Seat 10.21.08 [6]
• Forbes.com: Interviewing For The Top Job 10.14.08 [7]
• Wall Street Journal: Alcatel Goes on Hunt for New Leaders 08.05.08 [8]

• Forbes: Forbes ranks Korn/Ferry This article concludes do-it-yourself searches are as good or better. Korn Ferry did better than three the three other firms in the study. 01.14.09 [9]
  

ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

• These also need citations so they can be verified:

Awards

2008 Awards:
• Marcom Creative Award for Korn/Ferry's coporate Website and Brochure by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP).

• PRism Award for Korn/Ferry's new corporate identity, awarded by The Public Relations Society of America.

• Superbrand Award, recognizing Korn/Ferry as one of the leading brands in India.

• Bronze Anvil Award of Commendation, for Korn/Ferry's new corporate brand identity, awarded by the Public Relations Society of America.

• Kennedy Information Award, recognizing Korn/Ferry as the largest executive search firm in the world.

• World's Best Headhunters, awarded to seven of Korn/Ferry International's consultants by BusinessWeek Magazine.

2007 Awards:

• America's Greatest Brand, recognizing Korn/Ferry as one of the nation's strongest and most trusted business brand icons.

• Workforce Management Award, for Korn/Ferry as a top executive search firm.

• Eleanor H. Raynolds Award, recognizing excellence in executive search with a strong commitment to volunteerism for a Korn/Ferry Consultant.

• The MarCom Award, Platinum and Gold, for best Corporate Website and Design/Brouchure.

• BusinessWeek's Hot Growth Award, for America's 100 fastest-growing companies for the second consecutive year.

2006 Awards:
• PRism Award, for “Best Corporate Communication Program”.

ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

COI: User Nmroberts + User:Kohl22

I note a number of edits on this article by Nmroberts. The account only seems to edit this article. Having checked, I note an N.M. Roberts is a marketing assistant at Korn Ferry. I have hence reverted the majority of the edits this evening by Nmroberts, retained the factual number chnages, and placed a COI tag on the article. I have also requested that Nmroberst read our rules on COI, and adjust their editting appropriately. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 23:38, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Nmroberts now seems to have been replaced by Kohl22:. COI tag still applied. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 20:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

New Logo

Korn Ferry released a new logo and changed their name to not include the "slash." Can we update the logo image and title?

http://www.kornferry.com/skin/frontend/enterprise/kornferry/images/logo.png — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.75.8.194 (talk) 17:24, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

I have made this change for you. Dollface Canon (talk) 21:51, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

References

I noticed a number of references are the url to a Google Book link. I though editors might be interested in a tool which takes a link as input and creates a (usually) properly formatted ref.

Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books

I used it to improve one such reference.

It really helps creates a much cleaner list of references. I hope you will try it.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:33, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

moving claims said to be Douglas Cowherd's to talk page as he is actually quoting Korn in his book

According to Douglas Cowherd, the firm brought "the practices and standards of professional service firms… into the search business". Cowherd wrote further that Korn Ferry "innovated in three domains", those being: "creat[ing] specialty practice groups that focused on recruiting in particular industries", computerizing the industry, and establishing a "global network of offices", with its first foreign offices opening in 1972.

Serols

Serols has decided that the promotional content flagged here is something no one should remove. I disagree. I believe the tag at the top of the page, and we should remove advertorial material. Further comment here would be welcome! 2001:569:712B:C000:458C:EBFF:1BA8:1DFE (talk) 09:25, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Date error in History

In the second paragraph of the History section, it states:

"In 1999 the firm went public with an initial public offering (IPO), but in 1974 reacquired all outstanding shares to become private again.[6]"

This does not make sense logically, so must be incorrect. (I am not sure what the dates should actually be.) 198.70.201.220 (talk) 20:32, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Whitehead Mann into Korn Ferry

I don't think Whitehead Mann is independently notable. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 21:04, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

• Support - Agree with above. - Indefensible (talk) 03:39, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
• Strong support Isingness (talk) 06:46, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 10:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)