When McKinsey Comes to Town is a nonfiction book written by

Walt Bogdanich Walt Bogdanich (born October 10, 1950) is an American investigative journalist and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Biography Bogdanich graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975 with a degree in political science. H ...

and Michael Forsythe, published by

Penguin Random House Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was or ...

in 2022. The book discusses

McKinsey McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. Founded in 1926 by James O. McKinsey ...

's history, business practices, and influence on policy and professional culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The authors relied partly on interviews with "dozens of former and current employees" of McKinsey to source previously inaccessible information for the book.

Critical reception

The book has been reviewed in the

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, and others. Reviewers generally focused on facts and arguments shared in the book, with a focus on the "scandalous" nature of some incidents recounted.

References

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