The LRB Podcast

What do management consultants do?

Jan 10, 2023

45:56

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The Definition of Efficiency in Management Consulting

04:02

Strategic Consulting and Business Streamlining

03:02

McKinsey's Contract With ICE Under Obama

02:01

Introduction

2min

Summer Engineers

4min

Strategic Consulting and Business Streamlining

3min

The Role of the Management Consultant

2min

The Cost-Benefit Analysis That Management Consultants Engage In

2min

Is There a Redundancy in the NHS?

2min

McKinsey Consulting

3min

Middle Managers Are Always Going to Be Necessary

2min

The Definition of Efficiency in Management Consulting

4min

10.

How the Goopters Made Money in South Africa?

2min

11.

How the Goopters Re-Routed Money From the Government to Pay for Extravagant Parties

5min

12.

COVID and Management Consultants

3min

13.

The Government Says They Have Money for and What They Don't Have

2min

14.

McKinsey's Contract With ICE Under Obama

2min

15.

Mackenzie Management Consultants

3min

16.

Do You Have a Medical Degree?

4min

Laleh Khalili, a former management consultant, talks to Tom about how firms such as McKinsey, Accenture and Bain go about their business, the consequences of their relentless quest for ‘efficiency’, and the role these ‘class war mercenaries’ have played in supporting various governments all over the world.

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The LRB Podcast

What do management consultants do?

The Definition of Efficiency in Management Consulting

Strategic Consulting and Business Streamlining

McKinsey's Contract With ICE Under Obama

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