McKinsey chief sacked - FT

The head of the international consulting company McKinsey, Kevin Snyder, was fired by partners "after several crises," writes the Financial Times.

The FT notes that this can be considered not an ordinary resignation, but a dismissal for incomplete compliance: none of his five predecessors served less than two terms, and some - three or four. That the 54-year-old Snider was out before his second term shocked several insiders.

• One of the crises had a PR nature and was associated with Russia and the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. On January 23, the management of the Russian office of McKinsey sent a letter to employees, where they advised them not to participate in the “Freedom to Navalny!” and refrain from speaking on this topic in social networks and the media.

• A few days later, US Senator Marco Rubio approached the consulting firm with a complaint about its Russian office. The politician called the company "nothing more than an instrument of authoritarian repression." Snyder initiated an internal review and was forced to explain that this was a mistake and a distortion of the company's policy and its values.

• McKinsey has been featured in the media in connection with another scandal - about facilitating the sale of opioid drugs in the United States. The company will have to pay a $573 million fine.