McKinsey’s Business Model Is Unethical
6 min readNov 30, 2020
The Purdue Pharma scandal is business as usual
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a damning piece revealing McKinsey Co. — the world’s largest consulting firm — worked with Purdue Pharma to incentivize pharmacies to write OxyCotin prescriptions. Their solution? To offer nearly $15,000 to pharmacies like CVS when one of their patients developed an addiction or overdosed on the opioid.
