Can big business integrate corporate social responsibility into strategy to regain legitimacy? The legitimacy of business, the trust that people place in business, is at a low point. Business legitimacy is a matter of strategy, leadership, and responsible corporate behavior. Starting with that premise,
Category Archives: Leadership
Second: Enjoy Networking but Stay Focused
Professionals know that networking is important to their success. I have been thinking about how and why we network. Humans are amazingly, almost psychotically, adaptive animals. It should be strange that we throw ourselves out of airplanes but there are entire industries shoving us out ...
Five Tips for Attending Continuing Education Events
Hopefully, this list of five pointers will help you think more proactively about attending your next continuing education event.
Why Strategy, Law, And Organization?
In this post, I advance a simple argument: A combined Strategy, Law, and Organization lens provides superior solutions to difficult business and legal problems. Good business lawyers understand that legal problems are necessarily business problems. Yet, understanding the law, by itself, is ...
Pfizer, Alternative Fees, And Competition
Companies are increasingly forcing their outside counsel to offer an alternative fee for legal work. Pfizer is the latest example. The pharmaceutical giant recently formed the Pfizer Legal Alliance, a group of nineteen law firms who will provide legal services for the ...
Introducing New Contributor To The Strategy x Law Blog, Soyeun Choi
I am excited to introduce Soyeun D. Choi, a new contributor to the Strategy x Law Blog. She will write primarily on leadership, business and intellectual property law. After conversations with Soyeun about business and law, I am confident that she will provide thoughtful insights on issues at the intersection of strategy ...
Themes Ahead, Starting with Leadership
Serving as President of the Palo Alto Area Bar Association involves all sorts of varied and persistent responsibilities. Every aspect of the organization is under my review: every event, member, operational detail, meeting, administrative requirement, planning logistic, certification and reporting requirement etc., all issues ...