by Bruce | March 10, 2011 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership
A couple of weeks ago I learned that the legal department of Kraft Foods issued its “Adam Smith” award, for innovation in the delivery of legal services, to Clifford Chance, and Kraft intends it to be an annual award. I was curious to learn more. The first...
by Bruce | May 27, 2009 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Globalization, Strategy
I got back to New York this past Memorial Day Weekend after my extended European trip. While the trip was even more professionally rewarding and successful than I had hoped–not to mention fascinating and deeply gratifying on a personal level–I owe you all,...
by Bruce | May 17, 2009 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles
If you’ve never been to Edinburgh, I highly commend it to you. And that’s not just because of the Adam Smith connections, although that’s what I’ll very briefly mention here. We’re staying about 200 yards down the Royal Mile from...
by Bruce | March 23, 2009 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Book Reviews, Finance
From time to time, people ask me what I’m reading when trying to figure out what is going on in the economy these days. A glib response might be, "anything I can get my hands on," but the question deserves a more thoughtful response, so herewith a book...
by Bruce | November 15, 2008 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Consider Detroit’s Big Three. Having made what turned out to be bad bets on over-investing in now shunned product lines, they’ve been conspicuously laying people off, downsizing, attempting to renegotiate credit lines, and...
by Bruce | October 18, 2008 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Not every day do we get a new Nobel Prize winner in Economics, not to mention one whose name, Paul Krugman, might actually be familiar to more Americans than the few of us who are poor closet economists. Krugman is of course not only a Princeton professor (we pause to...
