LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box today announced that Heidrick & Struggles, one of the world’s
premier executive search and leadership services firms, is bringing
Box’s cloud content sharing and collaboration platform to its global
workforce. Heidrick & Struggles chose Box to power secure collaboration
company-wide and with its clients, as well as to enable mobile access to
information.
“With our workforce spread across 30 countries, it’s critical that we
provide our people with the right tools to foster greater efficiencies
and deliver fantastic client service at every touch point,” said Alwin
Brunner, CIO at Heidrick & Struggles. “By leveraging Box, we will be
able to create a central workspace for our consultants and clients and
streamline the process of finding the most innovative and distinguished
leaders for the world's top companies.”
“Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more
than 60 years ago,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. “Today,
they’re a tremendous example of a digital enterprise, leading with the
use of innovative new technologies and empowering employees with better
access to information for improved client outcomes. We are incredibly
excited to work with a company that’s moving forward to provide
integrated leadership solutions for organizations across the globe.”
Heidrick & Struggles IT leadership, tasked with bringing innovative,
cutting-edge technology to a global employee base operating in more than
50 offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific,
Africa and the Middle East, selected Box to:
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Digitize the executive search process leveraging Box as a central
client portal where consultants can easily share materials with
clients;
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Replace network drives and make it easy for employees to collaborate
across offices and with external parties;
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Empower its mobile workforce to intuitively collaborate and securely
share files from any computer, phone, or tablet;
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Provide IT with the control and administrative capabilities required
to govern and protect sensitive content at scale.
Box makes it easy for more than 37 million users and 47,000
organizations around the world to share and collaborate securely on
their most important content. With today’s announcement, Heidrick &
Struggles joins leading global organizations that have moved to Box to
power better ways of working, including GE, Schneider Electric and
Procter & Gamble.
For more information on today’s announcement, visit the Box
blog.
To hear how innovative companies across industries are using technology
to transform their business, join us at BoxWorks 2015, September 28 – 30
at Moscone Center in San Francisco. https://www.box.com/boxworks/.
About Box
Founded in 2005, Box (NYSE:BOX) is transforming the way people and
organizations work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. As the
world's leading enterprise software platform for content collaboration,
Box helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and
manage their critical information in the cloud. Box is headquartered in
Los Altos, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.
About Heidrick & Struggles
Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) serves the executive talent and
leadership needs of the world's top organizations as the premier
provider of leadership consulting, culture shaping and senior-level
executive search services. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession
of executive search more than 60 years ago. Today, the firm serves as a
trusted advisor, providing integrated leadership solutions and helping
its clients change the world, one leadership team at a time. www.heidrick.com.
