Re:NYC Paid McKinsey $27.5M to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, ...
by kolbe on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:23PM
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That is the standard little speech that I hear often repeated by McK employees. Like, "LOL, we don't do much, but we honestly try, but bureaucracy gets in the way." It's cute and funny on the surface, but I think it stops being funny when someone dives in deep and sees incentives that make a lot more sense than some nebulous concept of "political cover."
> His top deputy, Anthony Shorris, and other aides decided to hire a consulting firm. They solicited proposals from firms on a pre-approved list from the previous administration. Despite its lack of corrections experience, McKinsey won the contract.
> The mayor’s office denied that McKinsey was hired partly to provide political or legal cover, as did Shorris, who is now a senior adviser to McKinsey and teaches at Princeton University.
Now that's a reason a deal like this actually makes sense! I give you $27m in taxpayer money, and when I leave, you give me $x in return. That's a deal that makes a lot more sense than paying 24 year old NYU grads to solve big problems with powerpoint and linear regressions.
> His top deputy, Anthony Shorris, and other aides decided to hire a consulting firm. They solicited proposals from firms on a pre-approved list from the previous administration. Despite its lack of corrections experience, McKinsey won the contract.
> The mayor’s office denied that McKinsey was hired partly to provide political or legal cover, as did Shorris, who is now a senior adviser to McKinsey and teaches at Princeton University.
Now that's a reason a deal like this actually makes sense! I give you $27m in taxpayer money, and when I leave, you give me $x in return. That's a deal that makes a lot more sense than paying 24 year old NYU grads to solve big problems with powerpoint and linear regressions.