01625    a2200133   4500008004100000020001800041082000800059100001900067245010200086260004400188300001100232520102200243650022601265260716b        ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d  a9781780745953  bMCD  aMcDonald, Duff  aThe Firm: bthe inside story of McKinsey the worlds's most controversial management consultancy.   aLondon: bPan Macmillan India, c2013.   a387p.   aThey helped invent the bar code. They revolutionized business schools and created the corporate practices that now rule our world. McKinsey employees are trusted and distrusted, loved and despised. They are doing behind-the-scenes work for the most powerful people in the world, and their ranks of alumni include the chairman of HSBC and William Hague. Renowned financial journalist Duff McDonald uncovers how these high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological shifts but also become mired in controversy across the years. Discover how the firm celebrated Enron’s disastrous corporate structure and how they’ve been instrumental in the government’s controversial NHS reforms. Are they worth their astronomical fees? And what do firms and governments actually get for their money? Based on exclusive interviews with key McKinsey players and written in gripping prose, this is a revealing window onto one of the most secretive and powerful companies in the world.  aMcKinsey and Company—History; Business consultants—United States—History; Management consulting—United States; Strategic planning; Organizational effectiveness; Corporate culture; Business enterprises—Management