#consultancies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #consultancies, aggregated by home.social.
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“There are two common narratives about McKinsey. The first imagines the firm as some sort of hallowed place where future leaders go to test their mettle and learn the ways of the Force. Books like The McKinsey Way and The Lords of Strategy depict McKinsey consultants as heroes who rescue moribund businesses. The second narrative depicts McKinsey as a villain, driven primarily by greed. In their 2022 book When McKinsey Comes to Town, the journalists Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe made the case that the firm is to blame for—or at least complicit in—all sorts of modern-day evils: skyrocketing CEO pay, the Great Recession, the opioid crisis, the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, China’s surveillance state, even the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal.
The truth is that McKinsey is a quintessential institution of the post-World War II era. As such, the firm reflects all the successes of that era, as well as its blind spots, moral failings, and excesses. McKinsey was a key contributor to—and beneficiary of—the economic forces of globalization and financialization, trends that raised living standards around the world. But those same trends have been culturally destructive and politically destabilizing, which is why they are now often seen in a negative light by many on both the right and the left.“
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"We cannot have a repeat of this absolutely appalling episode, where people were monetising government secrets." Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers on PWC Breach of confidential information https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-31/jim-chalmers-pwc-members-to-be-named-publicly/102417308 #auslaw #auspol #confidentialinformation #consultancies
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#EU ‘#ForeignAgents’ law spooks #NGOs – #POLITICO
"#BRUSSELS — The #EuropeanUnion is working on a #law that would force #nongovernmental groups, #consultancies and #academic #institutions to disclose any non-EU funding as part of a crackdown on #ForeignInfluence in the #bloc, three sources confirmed to POLITICO.
The planned #legislation, which is in very early stages, echoes similar laws in #Australia and the #UnitedStates. In the #US, the #ForeignAgentsRegistrationAct has required #lobbyists working on behalf of foreign governments to register with the federal government since 1938."