by Bruce | June 8, 2012 | About the Site, Articles
Those of you who may find yourselves in our fair city on Thursday, June 21 without a big-deal lunch date might want to know about a panel I’ll be on, together with the gifted and very plugged-in New York Times reporter Peter Lattman, entitled “Teachable...
by Bruce | June 5, 2012 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Born June 5, 1723, Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Died July 17, 1790, Edinburgh. Today would be his 289th birthday.
by Bruce | June 2, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton has always been my favorite—and not because of the arcane fact that my uncle, Robert Ward McEwen (variant spelling), was the 14th President of that well-regarded upstate New York liberal arts college named for you-know-who....
by Bruce | May 28, 2012 | Articles, Ineffable
by Bruce | May 25, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The conventional wisdom has quickly coalesced around how all right-thinking folks ought to view Facebook’s IPO: It was a disaster. Some reasons for this view (NASDAQ’s humiliating meltdown, three shareholder class actions are already pending against FB)...
by Bruce | May 17, 2012 | Articles, Finance
“Follow the money?” Well, we can try. Using a combination of now-public material—the 2010 bond offering PPM being a godsend in that regard—and my own carefully constructed estimates based on other published reports including interviews with people in a...