by Bruce | June 28, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
By what follows I may reveal a curiosity sufficiently wide-ranging as to border on the suspicious, but so be it. When I was in college I took all the introductory-level, and many intermediate-level, science courses I could get into. Math through multivariate...
by Bruce | June 25, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The one question I’m asked most frequently these days, in the aftermath of Dewey, is "Who’s next?" Even if I had an answer to that—which is, as one apocryphal job applicant replied when asked his greatest weakness, "for me to know and...
by Bruce | June 18, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Three years ago I published What Laterals Need to Know: A Modest Proposal, which essayed the thought that firms had an obligation to disclose certain information about the firm in advance to a prospective lateral partner. (I owe a debt of gratitude to my friend...
by Bruce | June 2, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton has always been my favorite—and not because of the arcane fact that my uncle, Robert Ward McEwen (variant spelling), was the 14th President of that well-regarded upstate New York liberal arts college named for you-know-who....
by Bruce | May 25, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The conventional wisdom has quickly coalesced around how all right-thinking folks ought to view Facebook’s IPO: It was a disaster. Some reasons for this view (NASDAQ’s humiliating meltdown, three shareholder class actions are already pending against FB)...
by Bruce | May 14, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Beginning to emerge are lessons from the implosion of Dewey. I’ve believed, and written, for some time that the root causes of the failure, which is massive, spectacular, tragic, and utterly unnecessary, were self-inflicted: Unintentional suicide by drug...