Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower | The Nation

Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm.

World / Feature / September 5, 2023 Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm. Garrison Lovely Share Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Illustration by Tim Lane. This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue , with the headline “Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower.” In the summer of 2015, when I was 21 years old, I found myself working at one of America’s most notorious jails. I was interning for McKinsey & Company, the elite management consulting firm. We had been tas

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