The Firm
The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
$46.50
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2014
Summary
The story of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, “an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity.”
If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. Founded in 1926, McKinsey can lay claim to the following partial list of accomplishments: its consultants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological change to the nation’s best organizations; they remapped the power structure with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781439190982 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1439190984 |
| Author: | Duff McDonald |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 140mm x 211mm |
| Series: | A Business Bestseller |
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Critics Review
“Timely.… A fast-paced account of a key business institution, its deeds and misdeeds.”
”[T]hought-provoking … a fascinating look behind the company’s success… . [The Firm] chronicles McKinsey’s rise but also raises an important question about it that is applicable to the entire netherworld of consultants, advisers and other corporate hangers-on: ‘Are they worth it or not?’”
Duff McDonald
Duff McDonald is a contributing editor at The New York Observer. He has also written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, New York magazine, Fortune, and Esquire, among other publications.
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