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McKinsey, Opioids, & Ethics

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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.

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Management Consulting

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Management consulting is an industry that offers assistance with this kind of high-level decision-making and problem-solving. Management Consultants help businesses make strategic decisions that directly impact the entire company. They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement.

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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.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. Here, we’re not talking about actually developing case interview skills per se – we have a whole bunch of suggested articles at the end that will help you do that.

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McKinsey Offer vs. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Offer

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Yesterday I got the call from McKinsey and BCG and both have accepted me for positions. P.S. Do you have any thoughts on McKinsey vs. BCG? At the firm level, I'd say maybe McKinsey has a very slight edge in terms of a larger, more connected Alumni network, but in terms of future career opportunities, I think it's basically the same.

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Big 4 Accounting Firm vs McKinsey, Bain and BCG

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apply to McKinsey and Bain as well). problem, determine how to approach it and then develop a customized. Big 4, it's all about working with middle managers and possibly doing. Your work is controlled often, and your manager will also make a significant contribution to it. usually the same). At BCG on the. At BCG, you.

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3 Options to Develop New Managers

LSA Global

There are several effective options to develop new managers. But, Manager Performance is Not Meeting Expectations According to McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board, executives are not happy with the performance of their frontline managers and new managers are not being set up to succeed.