Article: Seven Decades of Leadership.(HKS Inc.)(Company overview)

Robert Cassidy

Harwood K. Smith would be proud of the tiny architecture practice he founded 70 years ago, in Dallas. In the intervening years, HKS, Inc., has grown into the third-largest A/E firm in the U.S. (BD+C Giants 2008) and seventh-largest architecture firm in the world (BD World Architecture ), with 1,250 employees in 25 offices worldwide and 2008 annual revenues of $420 million.

Smith would be proud that HKS has never missed a payment to a subcontractor or vendor; that it routinely retains 70% of its clients as repeat business; that it has won numerous "best firm" awards, including a Top 25 in the nation from the Society for Human Resource ...

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