by Bruce | September 1, 2011 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
A couple of weeks ago, Marc Andreessen wrote in The Wall Street Journal a provocative piece called “Why Software is Eating the World.” Among the observations he makes are: My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad...
by Bruce | August 31, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization
Liz Kurtz, a reporter for BigLaw, asked me earlier this week: The stock market has been quite volatile lately, and intimations of a “double dip recession” seem always to be lurking, in the reports of a persistently weak economy and in dire predictions of...
by Bruce | August 27, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Law Schools
If you’re going to criticize a behavior pattern as economically irrational–but it continues in the face of seemingly incontrovertible evidence that it’s self-defeating, even borderline delusional–you need to come up with a theory to explain why...
by Bruce | August 23, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
Steven Harper, a former Kirkland partner of 30 years who now writes at The Belly of the Beast and is re-published regularly on law.com, is someone whose writing and analysis I have admired since he first appeared on the scene. (No, I don’t know him, but I wish I...
by Bruce | August 19, 2011 | Articles, Law Schools
Larry Ribstein (who I consider a friend, and it’s mutual) has written “A response to LawProf and MacEwen” and LawProf has in turn written “Markets and failure: A response to Larry Ribstein.” This pretty much makes it incumbent...
by Bruce | August 18, 2011 | Articles, Law Schools
If you haven’t heard of Inside the Law School Scam, you’re in for a surprise. The site is written by a “tenured mid-career faculty member at a Tier One school,” and apparently there’s actually reason to believe he’s who he says...