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McKinsey or its partners have been directly involved in Enron, Valeant, and now an opioid crisis that's claimed thousands (if not millions of lives). "In for a
by the_drunkard 6y ago
McKinsey or its partners have been directly involved in Enron, Valeant, and now an opioid crisis that's claimed thousands (if not millions of lives).
"In for a penny, in for a pound" - this should be McKinsey's new corporate slogan.
Valeant article: https://www.ft.com/content/0bb37fd2-ef63-11e5-aff5-19b4e253664a https://www.ft.com/content/0bb37fd2-ef63-11e5-aff5-19b4e2536...
Enron article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/mar/24/enron.theobserver https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/mar/24/enron.theob...
- hirple 6y agoMcKinsey are involved in almost every company in the Fortune 500, and have been for decades. Of course they're going to be around for almost any given corporate failure.
- toby 6y agoTotally agree, this is cherry-picking. I don't have an opinion on how useful McKinsey is, but I'll note that no one is pointing out that they also did a lot of work for Microsoft before their big turnaround.
- the_drunkard 6y agoEnron and Valeant are two of the most significant examples of corporate malfeasance over the past 20 years; McKinsey or its partners were directly involved in both. That's not cherry-picking.
- jankyxenon 6y agoI think they work more than a third of F500 companies. What's your definition of cherry picking?