The impact on business caused by COVID-19 is beyond what any person could have expected as the United States entered 2020. In the span of a few months, more than 20 million people in the U.S. lost their jobs, erasing 10 years of job gains. Unemployment in the United States was 3.5% in February 2020. Two months later in April, it was 14.7%. In May, a surprise unemployment rate announcement of only 13.5% was celebrated (as opposed to what had been the expected rate of 19.0%). The U.S. Fed Balance Sheet increased from $4 trillion in 2019 to…Read more
What Could Corporate Execs Learn from Sun Tzu? (Part II)
This week’s article is part 2 of 2 by Scotts Marrs, Managing Partner at Akerman’s Houston office and our first guest columnist, on his experience
