Thursday, October 11, 2012

McKinsey Consulting at Time

They’re baaack. Bain & Co. [1] may have left the building, but the consultants—the mere mention of which causes tremors about layoffs—aren’t done at Time Inc. Seems CEO Laura Lang is working with McKinsey & Company now. McKinsey has a reputation for giving management justification to make cost cuts; the firm was at the publishing giant in 2007, and it left the layoffs of some 800 people in its wake.