<story><title>McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-faces-criminal-probe-over-opioid-related-consulting-a3f816d4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>On the contrary, this just affirms their value-add.&lt;p&gt;As a decision maker, the reason you would outsource decision-making to 23-year old PowerPoint kids is so you aren’t responsible for the consequences of your actions.&lt;p&gt;“Darn, that strategy ended up killing people?? Too bad evil McKinsey told me to do that! I’m just a lowly corporate officer. I wouldn’t have killed all those people if they didn’t show us those PowerPoint slides! I got duped like the rest of you!”&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[goes home and counts money]&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>JCM9</author><text>Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for McKinsey. They’ve gone from scandal to scandal over the last 10 years or so and their once vaunted reputation is now in shambles. They deserve whatever is coming to them here. There are certainly some decent folks that have passed through McKinsey but the firm is, ironically, in desperate need of some good advice on how to run a company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marban</author><text>Reminds me of &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;What people really want from the automated adding machine is not more accurate sums, but a box into which they may place their responsibility.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-faces-criminal-probe-over-opioid-related-consulting-a3f816d4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>On the contrary, this just affirms their value-add.&lt;p&gt;As a decision maker, the reason you would outsource decision-making to 23-year old PowerPoint kids is so you aren’t responsible for the consequences of your actions.&lt;p&gt;“Darn, that strategy ended up killing people?? Too bad evil McKinsey told me to do that! I’m just a lowly corporate officer. I wouldn’t have killed all those people if they didn’t show us those PowerPoint slides! I got duped like the rest of you!”&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[goes home and counts money]&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>JCM9</author><text>Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for McKinsey. They’ve gone from scandal to scandal over the last 10 years or so and their once vaunted reputation is now in shambles. They deserve whatever is coming to them here. There are certainly some decent folks that have passed through McKinsey but the firm is, ironically, in desperate need of some good advice on how to run a company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croes</author><text>Reminds me of&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Schie%C3%9Fbefehl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Schie%C3%9Fbefehl&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>