by Bruce | September 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization
Some conceptual confusion seems to be surrounding the crisis in the Eurozone, over whether it’s a banking crisis or a sovereign debt crisis. Answer B. Why isn’t it a banking crisis, as the pressures on Societe General, Banco Santander, BNP Paribas,...
by Bruce | September 14, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization
What is going on in the Eurozone? The always sane Martin Wolf writes in the FT: “Perhaps future historians will consider Maastricht a decisive step towards the emergence of a stable, European-wide power. Yet there is another, darker possibility … The...
by Bruce | September 9, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy
It’s quite the fashion to want to learn from what Google does, but because so much of what it does is thoroughly sui generis, true opportunities to adopt some of their management wisdom are fewer and farther between than many breathless business correspondents...
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 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 | June 19, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Legion are the topics lawyers don’t talk about, and they could perhaps be accurately summarized as “anything we’d prefer not to talk about,” but primary among them is the strength or weakness of their own firms’ business models. So...