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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

Or how likely is all this to hurt McKinsey's reputation? In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. And what risks did he run?