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A comment on McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says. Parent comment

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)
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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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