by Bruce | October 27, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
More on my London journey: The raison d’être of the trip, as mentioned, was to meet the other partners of Edge International: That meeting was this past Saturday and Sunday at the Naval & Military Club hard on St. James’ Square in...
by Bruce | October 24, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Dateline London (Has a nice ring to it, no?)My apologies to all for the blogging drought, but I will try to make up for it with a full report on my affairs in London when I return to NYC. (I arrive late-ish evening NYC time tomorrow/Tuesday, so Wednesday with any...
by Bruce | October 17, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The Clementi Commission reforms appear closer than ever to reality, and their implementation could be as early as next year. For those of you who are only recent visitors to "Adam Smith, Esq.," the UK’s Clementi reforms will, in an utterly...
by Bruce | October 11, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
With this year’s award of "The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel," a/k/a the Nobel Prize in economics, to two masters of game theory, a brief recap of what game theory is and what it means for managers contemplating...
by Bruce | October 6, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Mergers are here to stay. If you believe that (I do), then it’s worth a moment to explore how to do them right, and what can be learned from this who have gone before—most famously, perhaps, the 2000 tie-up of Clifford-Chance and Rogers & Wells. ...
by Bruce | October 2, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Juxtaposition can be deadly. Something which, viewed in isolation, seems explainable or understandable, can, placed next to its drastic opposite, seem utterly obtuse and even mildly absurd. So this weekend we have The American Lawyer’s release of its...