by Bruce | November 19, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
We have a quick update on our earlier survey about the future of the Eurozone: In sum: 36% of you think we’ll muddle through, but followed very closely by 32% of you who think the entire benighted structured, flying in the face of 1,000 years of history,...
by Bruce | November 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Back to the Eurozone. (Yes, we have to, depressing as it is.) For starters (courtesy of the indomitable Martin Wolf in the FT) There’s nothing to like about any of these four charts. The only point I would add to what you can all too plainly see...
by Bruce | November 16, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations
If you’re not familiar with Will Meyerhofer, a Harvard BA/NYU JD, former Sullivan & Cromwell associate, and now a psychotherapist in private practice in Battery Park City, I’m here to tell you you should be. Will writes at The People’s...
by Bruce | November 11, 2011 | Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
Last week I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of the Financial Times US Innovative Lawyers 2011 awards here in town. This is an award they’ve been doing in the UK for many years, and I was glad to see it imported across the pond; this was Year 2 of...
by Bruce | November 6, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership
We’re in a global economic mess of the first order, and nobody seems to know what to do about it. Reluctantly I have come to that conclusion after a spasm of reading about the Eurozone crisis, how the aftermath of financial recessions (as opposed to Econ 101...
by Bruce | November 4, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Profiles of Individuals
I don’t ordinarily write about ethical transgressions or semi-sordid tales of malfeasance among people more often found on the New York Post’s Page 6 than in the Times or the Journal, but here we have a cautionary tale that, I fear, may hold a slightly...