including the Best of Corporate Publishing Award and the prestigious Mercury Award. Initially, under the management of Burda, the magazine has been published by Axel Springer-Verlag since 2011. Roland Berger also publishes numerous studies and other publications every year. Public reception Advising the public sector caused controversial debates, especially during the term of office of the federal governments under Gerhard Schröder: In 2003, for example, it became known that Roland Berger had been awarded several contracts by the Federal Ministry of Defense without a tender. Although these were not legally objectionable, a revision of the awarding procedure followed. In 2004, the opposition in the German Bundestag criticized the payment of millions in fees to Roland Berger by the Federal Employment Agency (BA). They denounced the execution of core tasks by third parties, while BA head Florian Gerster regarded external expertise as indispensable for modernizing the agency. On the talk show Sabine Christiansen, Christian Wulff accused Roland Berger ad person in 2004 of providing expert opinions for the SPD state governments of Lower Saxony at exorbitant fees, while state parliamentary motions by the Greens were comparatively more substantial. Roland Berger himself sensed a political campaign, especially from the CDU, that would damage the economy. The role of Roland Berger was also criticized in the construction industry: In 2002, Philipp Holzmann, for example, went bankrupt, even though Roland Berger had previously considered the company to be essentially capable of restructuring. Roland Berger later justified himself by saying that the management consultants' recommendations had not been followed. In 2005, Walter Bau went bankrupt, and Roland Berger was also supposed to help with its restructuring. The company received a fee in the millions for this. The Chairman of the Works council argued that some of the management consultancy's instruments were not geared to the construction market or were generally not suitable for construction. However, observers emphasized that it was only the controlling system introduced by Roland Berger that revealed Walter Bau's desolate economic situation. In 2006, journalist and non-fiction author Thomas Leif published a book in which he takes a critical look at management consulting. In one chapter he also deals with Roland Berger. References External links 1967 establishments in West Germany Companies based in Munich Consulting firms established in 1967 Financial services companies established in 1967 Macroeconomics consulting firms International management consulting firms Management consulting firms of Germany German companies established in 1967