by Bruce | September 21, 2008 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Technology strategy
Reminder: If you haven’t taken our quick (3-minute) survey on e-billing, please do so. You can sign up at the end to get a free copy of the complete, aggregated, anonymized results. Take the survey! Thanks.
by Bruce | September 21, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Sometimes in the midst of turmoil all around us, with the landscape of the financial services industry–for many of us, our lifeblood–reforming under our very eyes, it’s worthwhile to take a step back and reflect upon some enduring business verities....
by Bruce | September 19, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Nothing less than a generational transformation of investment banking and the financial services industry at large. Its implications for, among other things, the economies of New York City and London, the structure of global capital markets, and our own dearly...
by Bruce | September 15, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Pete Peterson, former head of Lehman Brothers, co-founder of Blackstone, and secretary of commerce under Nixon, described this weekend’s events on Wall Street with what almost amounts to understatement: "My goodness. I’ve been in the business 35...
by Bruce | September 13, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
This is how the cover story of the current issue of Fortune starts out: It was the second week of October 2006. William King, then J.P. Morgan’s chief of securitized products, was vacationing in Rwanda, visiting remote coffee plantations he was helping to...
by Bruce | September 11, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Technology strategy
"Adam Smith, Esq." is conducting research into the market penetration of e-billing of clients by law firms—as opposed to the old-fashioned paper billing (even if it’s emailed, "pdf"’ed, etc.) and what analysis, if any, is actually...
