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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST's 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION An explosive deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to it to maximize their profits and enhance efficiency.  In When McKinsey Comes to Town two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting including layoffs and maintenance reductions to drive up short-term profits thereby boosting a company's stock price and the wealth of its executives who hire it at the expense of workers and safety measures. McKinsey collects millions of dollars advising government agencies that also regulate McKinsey's corporate clients. Shielded by NDAs McKinsey has escaped public scrutiny despite its role in advising tobacco and vaping companies purveyors of opioids repressive governments and oil companies. McKinsey helped insurance companies' boost their profits by making it incredibly difficult for accident victims to get payments worked its U.S. government contacts to let Wall Street firms evade scrutiny. And much more.  When McKinsey Comes to Town is a landmark work of investigative reporting that amounts to a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal more corrupt and more dangerous.

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