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A behind-the-scenes, revelatory record of McKinsey & Company, America's most important and controversial business consulting company, told by one of the nation's leading financial journalists. Founded in 1926, McKinsey & Company is becoming one of the world's leading management consulting businesses, helping to invent American business and shaping its course for many years. Ushering in the age of American professional dominance, McKinsey remapped the power structure in the White House, helped create the pub code, revolutionized business academic institutions, and introduced the idea of budgeting as a management tool. McKinsey consultants have created the organization behaviors that designed our world - reinventing our idea of American capitalism and exporting it across the globe. At the same time, however, McKinsey can also be associated with a list of eye-catching failures. Its consultants were on the field when Basic Motors drove itself in to the ground, and they played a crucial role in building the bomb known as Enron. Yet they are seldom blamed for the failures - at least not publicly. McKinsey employees are respected and distrusted , cherished and despised. And definately not prying eyes, they are doing behind-the-scenes work with the most powerful people on earth. In The Firm, celebrity financial journalist Duff McDonald uncovers how these high-powered, high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological shifts to the biggest and best American organizations. With unrivaled access to company documents and current and ex - employees, McDonald reveals the inner workings of what just might be the most important private organization in America.
