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3 Guidelines to Ensure Your Consulting Firm Does the Right Thing

David A Fields

With McKinsey making headlines for being under criminal investigation, it seems an opportune moment to examine the ethics of your consulting firm’s activities. Fields Consulting Group. This is one of them: Do the right thing.

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McKinsey, Opioids, & Ethics

CaseInterview.com

A couple of weeks ago, McKinsey settled a major lawsuit regarding the firm’s work with the manufacturer of OxyContin — one of the key drugs in the opioid crisis that has claimed many lives. First, I’m beyond disappointed in McKinsey’s role in furthering the opioid epidemic. What I think McKinsey did was worse. Your actions do.

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McKinsey, Opioids, & Ethics

CaseInterview.com

A couple of weeks ago, McKinsey settled a major lawsuit regarding the firm’s work with the manufacturer of OxyContin — one of the key drugs in the opioid crisis that has claimed many lives. First, I’m beyond disappointed in McKinsey’s role in furthering the opioid epidemic. What I think McKinsey did was worse. Your actions do.

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Consulting Ethics Concern, Once Again

The Consultants Peer Group

Lack of consulting ethics once again. Over the past week both NPR and Wall Street Journal have reviewed the book, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies , by authors Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington in which they skewer the consulting industry.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting - Part 2

The Consultants Peer Group

practice) in a deeper, more meaningful way – How you consult, in addition to What you do. practice) in a deeper, more meaningful way – How you consult, in addition to What you do. As you are likely aware, there are enumerable media articles on ethics lapses in management consulting. Yes, equivalent to $0.70

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting

The Consultants Peer Group

Over a short two-day span several consulting related articles caught my attention. First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. Lovely has since left McKinsey. First, the obvious, they are about my profession, management consulting.

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Ethics Lapses Rears Its Ugly Head, Yet Again…

The Consultants Peer Group

Ethics is a crucial aspect of management consulting, as it affects the trust, reputation, and value of the profession. Management consultants are expected to adhere to high ethical standards and principles, such as those set forth by the Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA) in its Code of Ethics1.

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