Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis...
by klmadfejno on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:32AM
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ICE was very bad. A lot of internal strife and change over those (and opiods).
Enron and china I'm not really familiar with. The Saudi one is, in my opinion, not a an accurate portrayal. My understanding is McKinsey did not create a report for the Saudi gov't on it and that it was someone who chose a deeply unfortunate example to demo some social network analysis stuff, internally, and not intended to be shared.
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis...
by klmadfejno on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:47PM
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I believe what I'm writing, and it's not the company line. I'm explicitly not giving the company a pass. I strongly disagree that providing approval for unethical or unpalatable decisions are what the company does. I would not work for McKinsey to serve, e.g. an oil and gas company personally, no matter the topic. But I feel good about what I do.
> They proposed cuts in spending on food for migrants, as well as on medical care and supervision of detainees, according to interviews with people who worked on the project for both ICE and McKinsey and 1,500 pages of documents obtained from the agency after ProPublica filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.[1]
[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/mckinsey-ICE-immigrati...
The CEO of Enron was a former McKinsey consultant and helped them transition from an Oil and Gas company. Arthur Anderson was just the firm left holding the bag at the end. [2]
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling
McKinsey helping dictators. [3]
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china...
> On October 20th, the Times reported that the government of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had employed operatives to harass dissidents, including the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was allegedly murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, on October 2nd. The article included the revelation that McKinsey had prepared a nine-page report measuring the public perception of certain Saudi economic policies, and cited three individuals who were driving much of the largely negative coverage on Twitter: a Saudi Arabia-based writer named Khalid al-Alkami, a dissident living in Canada named Omar Abdulaziz, and an anonymous writer. After the report was created, Al-Alkami was arrested, and Abdulaziz’s brothers living in Saudi Arabia were put in prison. The anonymous Twitter channel was shut down.[4]
[4] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mckinseys-work-for-...