GE vs Amazon Take 2

by | June 25, 2017 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Strategy

A brief follow-on to the earlier column on Amazon, GE, and Whole Foods. The typically worthwhile Greg Ip, writing in The Wall Street Journal on “The Economy Needs Amazons, but it Mostly Has GEs”, gives us the following chart: The point? For 20+ years,...

Question of the Month: Report #1

by | June 22, 2017 | Articles, Question of the Month

This column written by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq., Quick reprise: Earlier this month we launched a new feature on Adam Smith, Esq.: The question of the month. The inaugural question was: Is “origination” just a nicer term for “sales commission?” If so,...

Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!

by | June 5, 2017 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles

Adam Smith’s 294th birthday. An alternate calendar convention puts his birthday on June 16, 1723; the difference has to do with whether you do (June 16) or do not (June 5) adjust his birthday to reconcile it with the adoption of the Gregorian (Continental)...

Question of the Month

by | June 2, 2017 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation

With this column we inaugurate a new and, we hope, long-running feature on Adam Smith, Esq.: A question of the month.  Questions will vary, widely we suspect, and we invite readers’ suggestions for suitable future questions.  We prefer them to be–and will...
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