When McKinsey Comes to Town

In government and the private sector, in the United States and around the world, the influence of McKinsey is difficult to overstate. Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe penetrate the firm's vaunted culture of secrecy to expose the complicity of business consultants in abetting the conduct of unsavory clients -- from despots to opioid pushers -- and the malign ways in which McKinsey's scientific management ends up impacting all of our lives. Panoramic, meticulously reported, and ultimately devastating, this is an important book -- Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain Bogdanich and Forsythe show how McKinsey, rather than optimizing social welfare, optimizes corporate profits and greed. In doing so the Firm has become a super spreader of corporate misdeed and contributed to America's growing inequality problem. Hypocrisy, avarice, ridiculous power points, aiding and abetting the world's polluters and drug companies. Every page made my blood boil as I readabout McKinsey's flawed reasoning and the vast profits made from ethically dubious work for governments, polluting companies and big pharma -- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate, author of The Price of Inequality Two of the finest investigative reporters in the business got behind the wall of secrecy erected by one the world's most influential companies. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a revelatory - and disturbing - portrait of a powerful firm whose vaunted reputation is belied by its actions -- Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side