McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by klmadfejno on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:03AM (#26026545)

Probably not to a degree that would be satisfying to me as a random external stranger. Most work is very secret, to avoid conflicts of interest. I don't know what others work on. I know of a few high profile things lately that have had positive impact on the world, but it's all NDA'd as well.

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analyti...

I guess this group is a decent example of our public things, doing data science stuff to help human trafficking victims and what not. I don't have any experience with this group in particular and cannot speak to it. For my personal work space all I can say is that ~90% of my work felt morally neutral, and 10% felt morally positive.

One project was for a similar neutral task in an industry I think is detrimental to society so I declined to do it. That's also a thing which is encouraged and I think is nice. YMMV

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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by Frondo on Thursday February 04, 2021 @01:44PM (#26028442)

I have to say it doesn't strengthen your case to say "the damaging ones are public, the good ones are private."

That's asking for a lot of trust in an organization with a public history of doing damage to societies, like with the opioid thing or the Canadian bread price fixing agreement.

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