When McKinsey Comes to Town

<p><b>Walt Bogdanich (Author) </b><br><b>Walt Bogdanich </b>is an investigative reporter for the <i>New York Times </i>and is one of the US's most-honoured journalists. He has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes and four George Polk Awards for his investigative journalism. He previously produced stories for <i>60 Minutes</i> ABC News and the <i>Wall Street Journal </i>in New York and Washington. He has a BA in political science from the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree in journalism from Ohio State University. He lives in Port Washington NY.<br><br><b>Michael Forsythe (Author) </b><br><b>Michael Forsythe </b>is an investigative reporter for the <i>New York Times</i>. At Bloomberg he was part of a team that won the George Polk Award in 2013. Forsythe is a veteran of the US Navy. He has a BA in international economics from Georgetown University and a master's degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He lives in New York City.</p> <b>Hard-hitting ... damning</b> ... If you think what management consultants do is to dress up common sense in jargon and flog it as vision to credulous executives you are according to [Bogdanich and Forsythe] greatly underestimating their impact <b>A masterful work of investigative journalism ... to unearth conflicts of interest corruption hypocrisy and strategic blunders that read like a prosecutor's indictment</b> ... The fact that neither regulators the public nor most of McKinsey's employees knew about these sordid episodes ... is a testament to the authors' prowess as investigative reporters ... <b>superb</b> <b>Deeply reported</b> ... The portrait this book creates is one of a company chasing profits spreading the gospel of downsizing and offshoring its leaders virtually unmoored from any guiding principles or moral code ... <b>a clear and devastating picture of the management philosophy that helped drive the decline of a stable ... middle class over the last 50 years'</b> Hypocrisy avarice ridiculous PowerPoints aiding and abetting the world's polluters and drug companies. <b>Every page made my blood boil </b>as I read about McKinsey's flawed reasoning and the vast profits made from ethically dubious work for governments polluting companies and big pharma 'A lengthy and damning charge sheet ... <b>makes you so angry you want to chuck rocks at its offices ... the evidence the authors winkle out is astonishing </b>... What sustains you are the authors' eye for detail and killer quotes. If you want to know why top pay for US executives has risen to a record 350 times that of the average worker look to McKinsey A <b>highly informed</b><b> fascinating</b> read <b>A harrowing account of decades of dishonourable exploits</b> New York Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe's <b>devastating investigation </b>into the consulting firm uncovers <b>a story of secrecy delusion and untold harm</b>. ... The book's scrutiny - and measured sense of outrage - is overdue and you hope only the beginning With McKinsey's deep reach into business and government around the world it is inevitably and correctly a focus for discussion on what modern corporations are for ... <b>That this internal turmoil has come to light is testament to the depth of sourcing of journalists Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe</b> [whose] reporting of these and other controversies has intensified questions over the firm's ethics ... The debate ... is <b>intensely uncomfortable</b> for McKinsey's leadership' In government and the private sector the influence of McKinsey is difficult to overstate. Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe penetrate the firm's vaunted culture of secrecy to expose the malign ways in which McKinsey's 'scientific management' ends up impacting all of our lives. <b>Panoramic meticulously reported and ultimately devastating this is an important book</b> <b>Two of the finest investigative reporters in the business got behind the wall of secrecy</b> erected by one the world's most influential companies. A revelatory - and disturbing - portrait of a powerful firm whose vaunted reputation is belied by its actions After the publication of <i>When McKinsey Comes to Town</i> the secretive consulting firm is going to need its own management consultant to address the damage. <b>A tour de force of investigative reporting</b> Can you trust those clever folk at the consulting firm McKinsey? ... This book shows that McKinsey & Company has a darker side. <b>Timely</b> <b>Excellent investigative work</b> ... Every chapter of <i>When McKinsey Comes to Town</i> lays out another disturbing case in which McKinsey worked against the public interest An <b>investigative tour de force</b> [that] strip[s] away the aura of respectability that has surrounded the profession for more than a century [An] account...based on exhaustive research... [which] makes for <b>compelling reading</b> <p><b>**A <i>TIMES </i>AND <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**</b><br><br><b>An explosive exposé of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal more corrupt and more dangerous.</b><br><br>McKinsey & Company have earned billions consulting almost every major corporation in the world - and countless governments including our own. Shielded by NDAs their practices have remained vague - until now.<br><br>In this propulsive investigation prize-winning journalists Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe reveal the jaw-dropping reality. McKinsey's work includes ruthless cost-cutting in the NHS troubleshooting for Big Oil executing Trump's immigration policies (the ones that put children in cages) as well as advising some of the world's most unsavoury despots.<br><br><b>'A story of secrecy delusion and untold harm' <i>OBSERVER</i><br><br>'Makes you so angry...the evidence the authors winkle out is astonishing'<i> SUNDAY TIMES </i></b><br><br><b>'Panoramic meticulously reported and ultimately devastating' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE</b><br><br><b>'A harrowing account of decades of dishonourable exploits' <i>ECONOMIST</i></b></p> <p><b>**A <i>TIMES </i>AND <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**</b><br><br><b>An explosive exposé of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal more corrupt and more dangerous.</b><br><br>McKinsey & Company have earned billions consulting for almost every major corporation in the world - and countless governments including yours. Shielded by NDAs their practices have remained hidden - until now.<br><br>In this propulsive investigation prize-winning journalists Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe reveal the disturbing reality. McKinsey's work includes ruthless cuts to the NHS troubleshooting for Big Oil incentivising the prescription of opioids executing Trump's immigration policies (the ones that put children in cages) as well as advising some of the world's most unsavoury despots.<br><br><b>'A story of secrecy delusion and untold harm' <i>OBSERVER</i><br><br>'Makes you so angry...the evidence the authors winkle out is astonishing'<i> SUNDAY TIMES </i></b><br><br><b>'Panoramic meticulously reported and ultimately devastating' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE</b><br><br><b>'A harrowing account of decades of dishonourable exploits' <i>ECONOMIST</i></b></p>