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Does A Childhood Spent Playing Arcade Games Help Evaluate Talent?

Being able to recognize patterns in career behavior takes time and repetition I grew up playing video games, often tagging along with my older brother and his friends to the local arcade. I played all the classics: Pac Man, Centipede, Donkey Kong, not so much the driving games. My favorite is Robotron, one of the few video games to be played with two joysticks (instead of a button for firing it has a joystick – so one joystick to move and another one to fire). My college budd

What did David and Goliath teach us about the Executive Search business?

Boutique search firms have unique competitive advantages over their larger, brand-name competitors In the last few years, the mantra in the investment management world seems to be “bigger is better.” Acquisition and/or merger announcements have happened regularly. Many of the acquisitions have been of private credit firms bought by larger firms who did not have a private credit offering – this makes good sense, for the most part. But in many other instances the reason for the

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