David SMith

2 weeks ago | nyweekly.com | David SMith |David Smith

By: David SmithEvery financial services company must stay highly competitive if it hopes to meet the needs of its clients in the current era. Financial providers must be adaptable and scalable to remain competitive in the core banking services sector. When regular businesses leverage scalable and flexible financial services, they’ll achieve massive growth and consistently stay efficient. Let’s highlight several advantages of leveraging scalable and adaptable financial services for your firm.

2 months ago | kwbu.org | David SMith |David Smith

Last week we talked about groundbreaking modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg who died in Los Angeles in 1951. In 1965, Schoenberg’s son established Belmont Music Publishers to manage his father’s publishing rights. He also kept an official repository of Schoenberg’s scores from which orchestras worldwide could rent or buy copies. It operated out of a building behind the family house. That house was in Pacific Palisades, California.

Jan 13, 2025 | kwbu.org | David SMith |David Smith

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time….” You may recognize that line from either the play Macbeth or more recently, it being quoted in the musical Hamilton. Shakespeare’s point, at least in part, is that we’re all a little bit older now than we were last week. Time has a way of doing that. We know too that our mental sharpness begins to lessen as those years fly past.

Dec 9, 2024 | kwbu.org | David SMith |David Smith

Newport, Rhode Island is the home of the U.S. Naval War College and my work with it takes me up there occasionally. Over the years it’s become one of my favorite little towns. I don’t think there’s any place more picturesque if you like the water. Back during the Gilded Age in the later 19th century, it was one of the very trendy summering spots for the super wealthy.

Nov 25, 2024 | kwbu.org | David SMith |David Smith

Here’s a question for you: Does knowing that a particular work of art was painted by a famous painter make you like it more? How much does the name on the canvas influence what you think of it? Or even how much you like it? Would you like “Girl with a Balance” less if it were suddenly discovered that it did not come from the hand of Vermeer but from a copycat? One of the hottest topics in the art world is the challenge of accurate attribution.