Lehman Plus One

by | September 15, 2009 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy

One year later, and what have we learned? The strong, almost unanimous, consensus in hindsight is that letting Lehman Bros. fail was what precipitated the global financial meltdown, or what at least accelerated and deepened it. But what if that consensus is wrong? I...

MBA, JD, or PhD

by | August 6, 2009 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy

Have you ever asked yourself why management education exists?  Presumably, we know why law school exists (even the most curmudgeonly among us would admit the first year, and perhaps a fair portion of the second year, are an experience unlike any other, which, if...

When the WSJ Has No Clothes

by | July 31, 2009 | Articles, Globalization, Strategy

When the business paper of record (I refer of course to The Wall Street Journal, at least here on this side of the pond, although I’m increasingly fond of the Financial Times), prints a prominent article on its Op-Ed page entitled The End of Big Law, as Arthur...
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