Meghan Walsh

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Writer and Editor at Freelance

Managing Editor, Briefings Magazine at Korn Ferry

Articles

Court Decision on Limited Partner Exception to Self-Employment Tax | JD Supra

4 days ago | jdsupra.com | A. William Caporizzo |Meghan Walsh

On May 28th, the U.S. Tax Court issued a decision in Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner (T.C. Memo 2025-52) holding that all of the income allocable to the partnership’s limited partners (not just the amount characterized as guaranteed payments) is subject to self-employment tax.
Made in Mexico

1 month ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By: Meghan Walsh In 2018, when the trade war between the United States and China began, Raine Mahdi was operating a company that produced flexible packaging-think of the clear, pliable, easily customizable bags that granola is often sold in. While Mahdi was based in California, he sourced his products from a supplier across the Pacific Ocean. But as the the US and China launched a salvo of tariffs at one another, Mahdi got caught in the middle. His bottom line took a significant financial hit.
Are Two Heads Better Than One?

1 month ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By: Meghan Walsh It's a tempting idea, especially in these tough economic times, when so many CEOs are watching their firm's stock price plunge and earnings forecast miss the mark. Why not hire two people for the corner office instead of one, and get double the talent? A new study, chronicled in the Harvard Business Review, makes a case in favor of the two-heads-are-better-than-one solution, which several high-profile firms have tried in recent years.
A Workplace on Fire

1 month ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

Watch two experts discuss the health issues caused in the office on our Briefings Podcast. By: Meghan Walsh Parneet Pal grew up and went to medical school in Mumbai (then known as Bombay), the financial center of India and the world's sixth-most populous city. It was an interesting time and place to be contemplating health. While the South Asian country remained rooted in its ancient traditions, it was also barreling forward into modernity.
The Art of War...in Business

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By: Meghan Walsh Each team is assigned either a combat or humanitarian mission, and each member of that team is assigned a specific role necessary to executing it. Each squadron is also assigned either an active or retired fighter pilot to observe and assess their execution of the mission. Air Force fighter pilots operate with 98 percent precision, making the zero-tolerance-for-error world of military aviation one of the highest executing organizations in the world.
The Game of Kings (and Queens)

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By: Meghan Walsh Sabrina Chevannes is the founder of Complex Creative, a full-service creative agency in London that has worked with the likes of Fitbit and Pirelli. But the 37-year-old cut her creative teeth within the linear confines of 64 two-toned boxes, better known as a chessboard. "You learn the rules, basic strategies, different openings and endings-but then you adapt and play to your opponent.
From Rupture to Repair

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By: Meghan Walsh After taking the last sip of green tea from my cup, I walk outside to the parking lot. The clouds are vivid and close, making the divide between the earth-based world and whatever brews above feel especially porous. It almost immediately begins to rain, which feels apropos to the moment. I wrap the delicate cup stenciled with pink flowers in a hand towel, then drop it from chest height, bracing for the shatter. There is only a thud. I drop it again.
Carmakers Reenter the Space Race

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By Meghan Walsh A few years ago, if you had asked Caleb Henry, a senior analyst at the satellite and space financial-research firm Quilty Analytics, how soon cars would be relying on signals from space for streaming services like software updates, GPS, infotainment apps, and autonomous driving, he would have said it's a long way off.
The COVID Files

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By Meghan Walsh We know the stats on how the pandemic is ravaging businesses and the economy. We know companies are operating very differently today than a year ago, exposing frailties in a system that once seemed steadfast. But do you actually know what your colleagues, employees, and neighbors are experiencing behind the screen or the mask? The headlines have overlooked the many subtleties that are shifting in our personal and professional lives.
Survival of the Strongest

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh |Peter Lauria

By Meghan Walsh and Peter Lauria There was no doubt in Linda Rabbitt's mind that Rand Construction would survive the pandemic. It would be a fight, for sure, but the 72-year-old founder of one of the largest woman-led commercial construction firms in the US is no stranger to adversity. "I think I have a PhD in survival," Rabbitt says. And that's hardly hyperbole. Her story has been marked by personal and professional battles from the very beginning.