February 25, 2021
McKinsey & Co. has taken on a sinister reputation in recent years, and not only among the leftists who have long opposed the global consulting firm’s work supporting cutthroat capitalism for the world’s largest companies, or its contracts with autocratic governments.
The secretive firm has been implicated in a series of crises, most notably involving its hand in boosting the sales of Purdue Pharma’s Oxycontin, and fueling the US opioid crisis. It also signed what turned out to be an illegal deal with a state-owned utility in South Africa, and has been called out by investigative journalists for supporting the highly controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under the Trump administration.