by Bruce | June 5, 2022 | Articles
Well, OK, recordkeeping around births and deaths was approached a bit more casually 299 years ago, but June 5 is the consensus best guess. And here at Adam Smith, Esq., we are sticking to it!
by Bruce | June 1, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
This article was co-written with Janet Stanton, Partner. As you know, we have recently published our thoughts on the likelihood of a recession in the United States: Reasonably high, in a nutshell. We won’t rehearse our reasoning here in detail, but the root cause...
by Bruce | May 30, 2022 | About the Site, Articles
by Bruce | May 2, 2022 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Written with Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. In our first installment in this two-part series, M&A, Globalization, and Another Thing, we posited that although M&A is cyclical, and may be turning down from its stratospheric (and unsustainable) peak of...
by Bruce | April 19, 2022 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Of late we’ve gotten a number of queries from reporters asking us if we think the M&A/private equity investment tsunami of the last year and a half or more has peaked. A wise friend once advised that volunteering forecasts could be performed safely so long...