Jeffrey L. Cruikshank was the co-founder of Kohn Cruikshank, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm that served corporate and institutional clients for more than twelve years. In September of 2001, Kohn Cruikshank moved to Milton and became The Cruikshank Company, Inc.
Cruikshank is a graduate of Amherst College, and worked with a number of companies and schools in the Boston area in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980, he became the editor of the Harvard Business School Bulletin, beginning a relationship with that school that has continued since then, and has led to many other engagements in the worlds of education and business.
In addition to helping shape key communications for dozens of public and private institutions, Cruikshank is the author or co-author of numerous books of interest to managers. These include histories of the Harvard Business School, New England Electric, Cummins Engine Company, The Weather Channel, and Perdue Farms. He has also written a book on corporations and architecture for Herman Miller, Inc.; the definitive guide to art in public places(Going Public); and books on numerous other subjects, ranging from logistics in the Gulf War (Moving Mountains) to entrepreneurship (Low Risk, High Reward) to the inner workings of the real estate "game"(The Real Estate Game).
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