by Bruce | June 1, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
This article was co-written with Janet Stanton, Partner. As you know, we have recently published our thoughts on the likelihood of a recession in the United States: Reasonably high, in a nutshell. We won’t rehearse our reasoning here in detail, but the root cause...
by Bruce | May 2, 2022 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Written with Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. In our first installment in this two-part series, M&A, Globalization, and Another Thing, we posited that although M&A is cyclical, and may be turning down from its stratospheric (and unsustainable) peak of...
by Bruce | April 19, 2022 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Of late we’ve gotten a number of queries from reporters asking us if we think the M&A/private equity investment tsunami of the last year and a half or more has peaked. A wise friend once advised that volunteering forecasts could be performed safely so long...
by Bruce | March 10, 2022 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Ineffable, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
I don’t have the grey cells or, frankly, the spare time to keep track, blow by blow, of the Great Associate Comp Wars of 2022, but fortunately Above the Law does and has. From January 20th of this year, when Milbank kicked off the festival of riches arms’ race,...
by Bruce | February 17, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
In our first installment of this two-part series, we left off by asking why the composition of the Fortune 500 across a quarter-century span, from 1995 to 2020—widely thought of as an era of widespread disruption for major corporations—had actually been remarkably...
by Bruce | December 17, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
Will we or won’t we? When do we or don’t we? Return to the office, that is. Barrels of feckless virtual ink have been spilled on this topic for nearly two years, starting, say, late the week national lockdown became a real and not fantastical thing. ...
