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McKinsey

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Lex
    McKinsey & Co runs the consultancy playbook on itself Premium content

    Letting staff leave and not replacing them reduces the headcount without the hassle

    The logo of consulting firm McKinsey & Company at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    McKinsey sheds 10% of staff in 2-year profitability drive

    Shrinking headcount at consultancy firm contrasts with increased hiring at rival BCG

    The McKinsey stand on day three of the Mobile World Congress
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Former McKinsey partner jailed for deleting emails on US opioid work

    Martin Elling to serve six months in prison after admitting to destroying documents related to efforts to boost sales

    The logo of McKinsey & Company
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Q&AThe Big Question
    The Big Question: what will happen to office jobs in the age of AI?

    The automation of low-level tasks or entry-level roles could change the way future professionals are trained

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Special ReportUK’s Leading Management Consultants
    UK government insists consultancy spending cuts ‘on track’

    Big firms won £1.5bn of UK government work in 2024, an increase on the previous two years

    Image of a blurred man passing a street sign for ‘Parliament Street SW1’ and ‘Whitehall SW1’
  • Sunday, 2 February, 2025
    Accounting & Consulting services
    Bankruptcy adviser Jay Alix ends long lobbying crusade against McKinsey

    Businessman spent millions in Washington to force consultancy to reveal potential conflicts of interest

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  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    McKinsey considers sale of in-house asset manager after years of controversy

    Consultancy firm has hired boutique bank Ardea Partners for strategic review of MIO

    The McKinsey & Company logo is seen during the first day of Mobile World Congress 2023 at the Fira de Barcelona in Spain
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    Ageing Populations
    Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards

    People will need to produce more and work longer to plug growth gap left by women having fewer babies, report says

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  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    Fired McKinsey ‘scapegoat’ expands damages claim against firm

    New legal threat follows $650mn settlement with US government over company’s opioid work

    A McKinsey office
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Prosecutors label $650mn McKinsey opioid pact a warning to consultants

    Firm settles criminal investigation and former senior partner admits obstruction of justice

    This illustration image shows tablets of opioid painkiller Oxycodone
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    South Africa
    McKinsey’s $122mn bribery settlement in South Africa sparks outrage

    Politicians and campaigners say penalty is insufficient as country struggles with corruption

    Former South African President Jacob Zuma at a press conference in October 2022
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    McKinsey pays $122mn to resolve probes into South Africa bribes

    Deferred prosecution agreement covers corruption scandal involving state-owned companies during Zuma presidency

    McKinsey and Company logo
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    McKinsey nears $600mn settlement with US over opioid claims

    Payment would significantly raise cost to firm of its past work for opioid makers

    Three bottles of OxyContin
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    John Thornhill
    Corporate wizards out-magic the muggles

    Sectors like semiconductors and AI can reshape — or, in some cases, conjure up entirely new — markets

    Illustration of Amazon, Nvidia and Xiaomi logos popping out of the sparkles around a magician’s wand
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    McKinsey faces Republican calls for probe into China ‘conflicts’

    US officials request investigation into whether consultancy breached rules for Pentagon contracts

    Bob Sternfels speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in Washington on February 6
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Working It
    Stay local to find your new workers

    One in 10 Europeans is from a minority background and they form an ambitious talent pool

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Brooke Masters
    Brand loyalty ain’t what it used to be

    When concerns about high prices prompted shoppers to look around, many liked what they saw

    Supermodel Cindy Crawford drinks a Pepsi in an award-winning ad produced for regular Pepsi in 1991
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    News in-depthCitigroup Inc
    How Citi’s error-riddled loan reports led to a $136mn fine

    Penalty shows how chief executive Jane Fraser is struggling to resolve chronic issues plaguing the bank

    The Citigroup logo
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    John Plender
    Private equity has become hazardous terrain for investors

    The tailwind of freakishly loose monetary policy is now over

    A group of men climbing a mountain
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    McKinsey prevails in racketeering case brought by turnaround rival Jay Alix

    New York judge dismisses six-year old legal action accusing consulting firm of conflicts of interest in bankruptcy cases

    The McKinsey & Company logo
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Business InsightStephen Foley
    Is McKinsey really a partnership?

    Court case to test the issue as move to more corporate structure raises another question: should the firm go public?

    The McKinsey & Company logo
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    The many-sided crisis in consulting

    Disruption is coming to bite the industry that made a cult of it

    Illustration of people at desks in an office, with one person’s desk much taller than the others. The person sat at the tall desk is holding their arm up as if they are ordering other people around
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Soumaya Keynes
    How to get big numbers when predicting AI’s effect on growth

    Consider its scale, scope and speed

    Ann Kiernan illustration of an Ai droid gardening, gently touching seedlings.
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    McKinsey faces US criminal investigation over opioid industry work

    Grand jury set up to hear evidence on consulting for drugmakers tied to addiction epidemic

    McKinsey & Company logo
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    News in-depthProfessional services
    Consulting firms step up efforts to push out their low performers

    McKinsey’s mid-year reviews are the latest attempt to increase ‘attrition’

    A montage of people in shadows and the logos of BCG and McKinsey
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