by Bruce | September 24, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership
Here’s a depressing chart, courtesy of the enthralling and overwhelming All Things Data site Calculated Risk. This shows the percent of job losses relative to the peak employment month for every post-WWII US recession (there have been 11). You can see...
by Bruce | December 23, 2010 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Slate is covering the announcement by Merriam-Webster of the top ten words of the year for 2010: Say what you will about its appeal (or lack thereof) as fiscal policy, but the Top Word of 2010, according to Merriam-Webster, is austerity. The distinction is based on...
by Bruce | October 11, 2010 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting
The 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded today to Prof. Peter Diamond of MIT, Prof. Dale Mortensen of Northwestern, and Prof. Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics, for their work on–in the broadest sense–markets...
by Bruce | October 18, 2008 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Not every day do we get a new Nobel Prize winner in Economics, not to mention one whose name, Paul Krugman, might actually be familiar to more Americans than the few of us who are poor closet economists. Krugman is of course not only a Princeton professor (we pause to...
by Bruce | July 18, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
My friend Professor William Henderson at Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington just sent word of a new initiative the law school is launching in conjunction with the American Bar Foundation. Called the "Law Firms Working Group," the...
by Bruce | February 1, 2007 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Practice Group Management
The College of Law Practice Management was formed over a decade ago to "honor and recognize distinguished law practice management professionals, to set standards of achievement for others in the profession, and to fund and assist projects that enhance the highest...