by Bruce | December 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The BBC evidently does an annual review of the economic year as part of “BBC Newsnight,” and they’ve posted the top economists graphs of 2011, “sharing insights into the year’s extraordinary financial developments, particularly in the...
by Bruce | December 6, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
And I respond here (transcript) and here (podcast).Among the highlights:[Me:[ One of the things that started to happen before the Great Recession was, for example, I saw this most clearly in the rise of starting salaries to a $160,000 in New York and major...
by Bruce | December 5, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Practice Group Management, Strategy
I doubt many of you, gentle readers, follow David Carr, who writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of The New York Times, but I commend him to you as an enlightened, thoughtful, and experienced observer at the intersection of media,...
by Bruce | December 2, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Just Plain Interesting
Ever wish you could commission a quick poll of economic experts to opine on issues of current interest? Well, you can’t, but we have the next best thing: The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business’s Initiative on Global...
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...