Harvard Business School + McKinsey & Company: What is the Connection? Is the connection still strong? Are they a powerful pair?

• Laurel & Hardy
• Ben & Jerry
• Tom & Jerry

See how the 2 names are always taken together? They are almost inseparable, ha ha. During the MBA, I discovered some more pairings - powerful pairings, as below:

• Goldman Sachs & the US government.
• Harvard Business School & McKinsey & Company. 

Do some Google searches and you will know about the connections. Regarding HBS and McKinsey, this is wonderful sentence I read recently, from a very nice book about Management Consultants called as "The House of Lies" - by Martin Khin. The sentence goes something like this:

• It is not true that Harvard & McKinsey control all of American economy
• That is false - simply because that is an old myth. The truth is...
• Harvard & McKinsey control the world economy!  

Cheers!

Gerry Som.