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Re:McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioi... by dpflan on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:46PM (#19064392)
FTA: “If you’re complicit in causing a major social problem, it has become very fashionable to also be engaged in solving that problem. And, in fact, in trying to lead the solution chase.“

This is interesting, I wonder if teams within McKinsey working on different sides of the issue were aware of each other.

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Re:McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioi... by alalp on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:44PM (#19064800)
Having worked for McKinsey myself, I can assure you they are/were not. Client confidentiality is holy and you normally do not talk to your colleagues about the work you do. McKinsey oftentimes serves clients on both sides of an M&A deal for example and has strict procedures in place to keep teams separate.
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Re:McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioi... by pjc50 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:30PM (#19064695)
I've often heard people make this complaint about public services existing to perpetuate the problem they're supposed to solve, but the same problem is much easier to do when you're an amoral consultancy in the private sector.
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Re:McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioi... by yborg on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:48PM (#19064830)
https://my.mixtape.moe/pvaozn.jpeg

My favorite of all of these.

For an executive, spending money on a brand-name consultant certainly can have value in that he's able to hand off responsibility for failing to solve a problem to an entity whose brand is more or less impervious to failure. It's a win for everyone but the company putting up the money.

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