by Bruce | December 22, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays story of the first order: As noted this morning by The New York Times, Above The Law, and The WSJ Law Blog, Sonnenschein is acquiring about 100 lawyers, including 40 partners, from 160-year-old Thacher Proffitt &...
by Bruce | December 3, 2008 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization
I’m here in The City for the week, having arrived Sunday morning and going home to New York Thursday evening. The purpose is essentially a series of meetings with various firms I’m having with my partners Ward Bower and Tony Williams, but that...
by Bruce | November 27, 2008 | Articles, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Twenty-six years ago Tom Peters and Robert Waterman published In Search of Excellence, and to some extent the genre of writing for business managers hasn’t been the same since. If for no other reason, it’s worth taking a moment to revisit...
by Bruce | November 23, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Consider a nonrandom selection of headlines from The New York Times, The Financial Times, andThe Wall Street Journal: Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk Citigroup Tries to Steady Stock Turmoil Continues in Banking Sector Citigroup: You Can’t Step Into the Same...
by Bruce | November 19, 2008 | Articles, Globalization, Law Schools, Leadership, Strategy
I’ll be attending the "Globalization of the Legal Profession" conference at Harvard Law School this Friday (21 November), put on by HLS’ Program on the Legal Profession. Here’s the agenda, with some notables on the program...
by Bruce | November 15, 2008 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Consider Detroit’s Big Three. Having made what turned out to be bad bets on over-investing in now shunned product lines, they’ve been conspicuously laying people off, downsizing, attempting to renegotiate credit lines, and...