by Bruce | December 22, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
We’ve never done a year-end review, and don’t count this (The “First Annual” if you wish) a precedent, but I thought it worthwhile to build one of the final columns of 2012 around what law firm leaders are saying. So without further ado, as the...
by Bruce | November 28, 2012 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Lapsed lawyers are one of our favorite groups, because they tend to be so diverse in their backgrounds, motivations (for lapsing) and current post-law situations. And we finally have an opportunity to find out more about you all. Please follow this link to take a...
by Bruce | October 19, 2012 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Law Schools, Recruiting, Technology strategy
On Monday the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Lloyd Shapley and Al Roth, for their work on market design and matching theory, which relate to how individuals and firms find and select one another in areas from school choice to jobs to...
by Bruce | December 2, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Just Plain Interesting
Ever wish you could commission a quick poll of economic experts to opine on issues of current interest? Well, you can’t, but we have the next best thing: The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business’s Initiative on Global...
by Bruce | November 24, 2011 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting
Today we’re talking about books. Specifically, Robert Frank’s The Darwin Economy and David Rose’s The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior. I believe the first–far better known–is a failure and the second–while too drily...
by Bruce | October 10, 2011 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting
The annual award of the Nobel Prize in Economics (technically, since it’s not one of the original Nobel’s, the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”) is always an occasion for a toast here at Adam Smith, Esq.,...