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What do you get when you cross one of the world's best known law schools with a global management consulting firm? The answer, Harvard Law School (HLS) hopes, is an improved academic institution...
Neither senior law school officials nor representatives from McKinsey were willing to comment on the price of the firm's consultation, but several sources estimate the figure to be anywhere between $800,000 and $ 1 million...
Noting that Harvard boasts one of the two largest law schools in the country, Warren suggests that hiring a consulting firm was necessary in order for her committee "to get a systematic understanding of the student experience...
...Warren says that in their initial interviews with the firm, McKinsey representatives told members of the Institutional Life Committee that they had done work for educational institutions in the past...
Simon Mendelson, a McKinsey partner who graduated from the law school in 1990, says that his firm does not have a specific practice for academic consulting but said that aspects of the HLS study--for instance, its attention to student satisfaction and school governance--coincided with specialty areas of McKinsey's corporate practice...