Consultant management: McKinsey loses its shine
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The world’s biggest strategy consultant has smaller rivals nipping at its heels. As it nears 100 years old, we ask how it will navigate a tricky AI-inflected future. It is already hard enough to fiddle with travel plans to get the cheapest flight. A new thing to consider? Whether you’re flying solo. And in America, women’s-sports bars are proliferating.
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| 1:27.0 | Everybody knows that airlines have wildly complicated algorithms that set their pricing. Staying through a Saturday |
| 1:28.6 | tends to be cheaper, for example. But big American carriers now have a new wheeze, and solo |
| 1:34.6 | travelers should beware. And you can probably picture an American sports bar. Lots of beer, |
| 1:42.5 | lots of televisions, lots of men drinking beer and watching |
| 1:45.2 | televisions. We look at a growing trend that makes one crucial change to this scene. There are |
| 1:50.9 | a lot more women. But first... I don't have to tell you that it's a period of great global and technological change. |
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