The partnership : the making of Goldman Sachs

Ellis, Charles D.

Book 2008

A history of Goldman Sachs focusing on the personalities who took it from a marginal family firm with limited prospects to its current status as the most profitable and powerful investment bank in the world.

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ISBN:

9781594201899

Description:

xvi, 729 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-709) and index

Contents:

Beginnings
Disaster: Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation
The long road back
Ford: the largest IPO
Transition years
Gus Levy
The wreck of the Penn Central
Getting great at selling
Block trading: the risky business that roared
Revolution in investment banking
Principles
The two Johns
Bonds: the early years
Figuring out private client services
J. Aron: ugly duckling
Tender defense, a magic carpet
The uses and abuses of research
John Weinberg
Innocents abroad
Breaking and entering
How BP almost became a dry hole
Changing the guard
Transformation
False starts in investment management
Robert Maxwell, the client from hell
Making arbitrage a business
J'accuse
Building a global business
Steve quit!
Collecting the best
Jon Corzine
Long-term capital management
Coup
Getting investment management right
Paulson's disciplines
Lloyd Blankfein, risk manager

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2008025228

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166134

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