Walt Bogdanich

Dec 5, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Forsythe |Walt Bogdanich

McKinsey & Co. agreed to pay a fine of more than $122 million to resolve a felony bribery investigation stemming from its work in South Africa, federal prosecutors in New York said in a filing unsealed Thursday. It is the latest in a string of legal penalties for the global consulting firm, which in recent years has agreed to pay about $1 billion in settlements for its work with opioid manufacturers.

Oct 23, 2024 | spokesman.com | Walt Bogdanich |Carson Kessler

By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the drugmaker Eisai, the trial was a shot at a windfall — potentially billions of dollars — for defanging a disease that had confounded researchers for more than a century. To assess the drug’s effectiveness and safety, Eisai sought to include people whose genetic profiles made them especially prone to develop Alzheimer’s.

Aug 23, 2024 | fingers.email | Walt Bogdanich |Mike Forsythe |Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway

Books? Pretty great, I think. Reading them, referencing them, arranging them by color on a shelf behind you so when you get on a Zoom call you seem chic and put-together? Good shit all around. As longtime readers may recall, my reading list doubles as a shoppable page on Bookshop.org, The Fingers Reading Room.

May 10, 2023 | planetadelibros.com | Walt Bogdanich |Michael Forsythe

Sinopsis de La consultora: McKinsey es la consultora más prestigiosa e influyente del mundo. Gana miles de millones asesorando a empresas y gobiernos que recurren a sus servicios para maximizar sus beneficios y mejorar la eficiencia. Su filosofía empresarial consiste en hacer que el mundo sea un lugar mejor y su prestigio atrae a los talentos más prometedores de las universidades de élite.

May 2, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Jaclyn Diaz |Walt Bogdanich

Close to a third of nurses nationwide say they are likely to leave the profession for another career due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey from AMN Healthcare shows. This level is up at least seven points since 2021. And the survey found that the ongoing shortage of nurses is likely to continue for years to come. About 94% of nurses whoresponded to the AMN Healthcare survey said that there was a severe or moderate shortage of nurses in their area, with half saying the shortage was severe.