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 | 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 | March 27, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Toby Brown and Ron Friedmann (both friends) have a thoughtful and well-reasoned point/counter-point going over at “3 Geeks and a Law Blog,” which they invited me to comment upon. It’s called “Bet the Farm” versus “Law...
by Bruce | January 21, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
“With all respect, I think that’s the wrong question. There’s always new stuff out there, and most of it’s not very good. Rather than looking for the next musing, it’s probably better to be thorough about what we know is true and make...
by Bruce | December 28, 2010 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Ronald Coase (actually, December 29th–and he’s alive and more than kicking, about to publish a new book early next year, How China Became Capitalist), the Economist has published Why Do Firms Exist?, which opens...
by Bruce | December 24, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
A loyal reader (requesting anonymity as he’s not authorized to speak for his firm) writes: You and other commentators (Richard Susskind comes to mind) make a case for a more efficient, industrialized, less hand-crafted practice of law. I note, however,...