by Bruce | October 8, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Late last month, as faithful readers know, I spent a week in Sao Paulo, serving the cause of market research for Adam Smith, Esq. Why Sao Paulo and what do I mean by market research? Sao Paulo is the largest city proper in North or South America: Over 11-million...
by Bruce | August 28, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
Hogan/Lovells Sonnenschein/Dentons Squire Sanders/Hammonds Proskauer/Berwins Question: Which of these four does not resemble the others? While you’re thinking about that… As LegalWeek described the Hogan/Lovells deal at the time: Aside from its...
by Bruce | August 15, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization
I will be in Sao Paulo from September 21st–24th. Aside from a couple of speaking presentations, the primary goal of my trip will be to gather market intelligence on this intrinsically fascinating, deeply promising, and yet, at least to North American eyes,...
by Bruce | August 15, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Technology can be a blessing and a curse and, while my feet are firmly planted in the former camp, that’s not why I’m writing what, I hope, you are about to read. Because it is about technology. I’m writing it for two reasons: I...
by Bruce | July 19, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Outsourcing is here to stay. Whatever you call it, and whatever you think of its quality, clients have tasted of the fruit of the forbidden tree and they’re not going back. If document review can be conducted by Ivy League law school grads trained at white-shoe...
by Bruce | July 7, 2010 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
[Linklaters Managing Partner Simon] Davies said the firm was focused on overall profitability rather than its revenue, which has suffered due to the deflated M&A market with about 40 per cent of income generated by the corporate department. “Our...
