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AI will not kill McKinsey

A lot of people don't understand what elite management consultancies actually do

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Dave Friedman
Aug 03, 2025
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TL;DR: this is a short post about how people misunderstand what McKinsey, and its competitors, Bain and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), do, and how advanced AI will entrench, not eliminate, their presence in corporate America’s boardrooms. Further, the same reasons why advanced AI will entrench elite management consultancies is also why elite law firms w…

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