Blue Chip Firm May Have Put Its Finger on the Roulette Wheel
February 18, 2022
The Financial Times, protecting the orange newspaper’s content with a paywall, published an interesting item about McKinsey & Company. The outfit is allegedly the big dog of consulting firms. Its super sharp consultants, however, engineered the firm into a corner, if the orange newspaper’s report is accurate.
“US Appeals Court Reinstates Racketeering Claim Against McKinsey” recounts an allegation made by Jay Alix, whose AlixPartners competes with the Blue Chip Big Dog. The article works in references to McKinsey’s advice to purveyors of opioid variants, but McKinsey was betting on bankruptcies to generate revenue.
The Alix matter,
alleged that McKinsey violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act, accusing the firm of filing misleading disclosure statements to the bankruptcy court in order to secure consulting appointments worth tens of millions of dollars. AlixPartners lost business as a result, he alleged.
McKinsey, acting in the optimal precepts of agile management, has ousted its managing partner. Kevin Sneader uttered a pithy truism in 2018:
Sorry.
Does this story have legs? Not for those outside the rarified atmosphere of the Blue Chip consulting firms. PR mastery? Money can’t buy love, but it can buy some things. Compare the news coverage of Facebook’s quarterly zuck up or the NSO Group’s software. McKinsey, which may be a far more impactful series of actions, is not of much interest. That’s too bad. Ethical compasses have to be manufactured somewhere.
McKinsey asserts that Alix’s allegations are untrue. Okay.
Stephen E Arnold, February 18, 2022
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