Word: mckinseys
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...critics voice strong doubts. They charge that even the friendliest consolidations can derail careers, disrupt communities and create unmanageable mountains of debt. Perhaps worst of all, evidence is accumulating that many celebrated past mergers have been colossal failures. Warns Sigurd Reinton, a partner in the management-consulting firm of McKinsey & Co.: "The benefits of mergers and acquisitions are often overrated. You cannot generalize and say all acquisitions are bad, but there is a sufficient number that, at least in hindsight, should not have taken place to suggest a need to tread carefully...
...were an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator?” asks the suspicious McKinsey interviewer...
...July 2000. Six members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, and three members of the Board of Overseers joined to form the Presidential Search Committee. The group included Harvard graduates, the president emeritus of the University of Chicago, and the former chair of McKinsey and Co.—all heavy-weights looking for an even heavier hitter. They would spend nine months in search of the heaviest...
...many ways an unstoppable force in global business. Just don't expect to add software outsourcing to that list anytime soon. Yes, the number of English-speaking college graduates in China has doubled since 2000--a good sign for outsourcing work. But according to a report from management consultancy McKinsey & Co., that proficiency is not translating into greater profits or international dominance. Reason: the industry is extremely fragmented, with the top 10 IT-service companies claiming only 20% of the domestic market. Compare that with India's bustling IT-outsourcing industry, where the top 10 firms capture 45%. Smaller firms...
...central administration has hired the consulting group McKinsey and Co. to advise Summers and Hyman on how to best restructure the position...