by Bruce | August 15, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Technology can be a blessing and a curse and, while my feet are firmly planted in the former camp, that’s not why I’m writing what, I hope, you are about to read. Because it is about technology. I’m writing it for two reasons: I...
by Bruce | August 11, 2010 | Articles, Finance
Many people underestimate the contribution disease makes to the economy. In Britain, more than a million people are employed to diagnose and treat disease and care for the ill. Thousands of people build hospitals and surgeries, and many small and medium-size...
by Bruce | August 4, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Practice Group Management
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is momentous. According to Davis-Polk, It represents the greatest legislative change to financial supervision since the 1930s (few would argue on that score) This legislation will affect every...
by Bruce | July 28, 2010 | Articles, Finance
For those of you in the New York area, or who might be here the first week of October, here’s a heads-up about a day long conference on the topic of alternative fees that Adam Smith, Esq. will be hosting and which we developed, and we warmly invite you to...
by Bruce | July 26, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Wouldn’t you suppose that inarguable goals are, well, inarguable? Welcome to law-firm land. This is a story about how we let our firms be knee-capped in fealty to principles of individual autonomy. Consider a hypothetical firm: It might be a boutique and it...
by Bruce | July 25, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Strategy
In times of accelerated turmoil such as those we’ve been living through and which appear likely to continue, to the eye’s visible horizon, it can be useful to return to first principles. So, herewith, a quick precis of Joseph Schumpeter’s famous...