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Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by nradov on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:24PM (#32185968)
A lot of those ex-McKinsey people ended up at Enron, at least for a while...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/07/22/the-talent-myth

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Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by blululu on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:19PM (#32186468)
If you’re discussing Enron and consulting you could just go straight for Accenture’s predecessor: Arthur Andersen which was the responsible party.
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Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by AtlasBarfed on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:43PM (#32186669)
Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting had an expensive divorce in 1997ish, and Andersen Consulting became Accenture.

A very wise investment (basically the Accenture partners needed to pay off the rest of the AA partnership to leave) in retrospect.

AA based on my impressions was the top of the big 6 accounting firms in size and reputation. Wow did they bite it hard in Enron. They probably all fled like rats to the rest of the former big 6, but all that hard earned reputation....

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Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by bluepizza on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:17PM (#32186454)
Enron sounds eerily familiar to today's tech companies...
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