by Bruce | May 27, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Ian Davis, worldwide managing director of McKinsey, has a thoughtful piece over at The Economist attempting to mediate a truce between the evangelists of "Corporate Social Responsibility" and the Milton Friedman-ite school that "the business of business...
by Bruce | May 23, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Professor Carley, as well as a frequent correspondent who I will identify only as the director of KM at an AmLaw 100 firm, have come through. First, Professor Carley provided a working paper on the Enron email database, and told me that under the auspices of her...
by Bruce | May 20, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Marketing, Strategy
Yesterday I met Bruce Marcus, at a Starbucks outside Columbia University’s main gates, a very convenient walk from home for me. Venus even came along. Bruce Marcus was most recently co-author of "Client at the Core," described on the leaf...
by Bruce | May 19, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
Across the pond, we’re about to see an actual experiment that heretofore could only have been a thought experiment: Thanks to the "Clementi Commission," non-lawyer third parties will now be able to invest in law firms—most dramatically, law...
by Bruce | May 18, 2005 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Rarely, if ever, do I link to The Wall Street Journal, on the premise that the overwhelming majority of you have already seen it, so why point to what’s been in front of your face? But rules are made to be broken, so this morning I give you two WSJ...
by Bruce | May 17, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
"Savvy Blawger" Query #3 is now out for the assembled to mull over with, of course, their cogent responses reported back to you a few weeks hence. The question for this go-round is: “What will the industry structure of the (US-based) legal...
