by Bruce | January 27, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Lots of ink has been spilled lately about how M&A activity in the legal sector has picked up. Let’s stipulate that’s true. I for one believe it to be the case, and have been involved in more conversations along those lines in the last several...
by Bruce | January 4, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
The always-informative, occasionally juicy New York Times DealBook, written by the tireless and uber-connected Andrew Ross Sorkin, had a year-end wrapup yesterday of 2011 global M&A activity, including a table listing the top 15 law firms (more below), but here...
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...