Le British daily Financial Times has just revealed, in early July, that the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a large consulting firm, conducted a mission to an American security company, mandated by an Israeli reflection center, on the «Reconstruction of Gaza». The study evokes the displacement of 500,000 Palestinians and estimates offers, if we dare to say, to formulate in the Gazaouis, by wondering about the most efficient: 9,000 dollars (7,726 euros) cash or $ 5,000 and four years of rent. A plan without the inhabitants, for a reconstruction without the survivors, billed several million dollars. The BCG presented its escuses, dismissed the culprits and renounced to be paid.
We could be satisfied with it, if there were so many deaths, so many horrors and suffering. One might pretend not to remember the McKinsey affair, in the United States, named after the consulting firm Who recommended the overdose of opioids to increase the price, resulting in CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal organization of control and disease prevention), the death of tens of thousands of people by overdose. Again, the cabinet expressed its “Deep” Regrets, and made an agreement in 2024, to settle nearly $ 1 billion to avoid trials. Three rule enthusiasts will appreciate.
We can be satisfied with these acts of contrition. A high-heart and next. We can more usefully wonder about what makes these scandals possible. Like all companies, those of advice have “process”. We do not “interfere” without agreement. We do not accept a new customer without risk analysis. We do not work outside the rules of ethics.
Poorly known codes
Let’s talk about it. These rules exist. Some firms refuse to work for sex, game or tobacco industries; others, in such or such country. All erect the famous Chinese walls, of the “China walls” supposed to protect conflicts of interest. But, unlike the regulated professions (lawyers, accountants) or those adopting charters (journalists), these codes are rarely published and often poorly known to the consultants themselves. Everything is based on self -regulation.
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