The partnership the making of Goldman Sachs

With unparalleled access to the firm's leadership, Ellis chronicles the brilliant individuals who built one of the world's largest investment banks.

Main Author: Ellis, Charles D.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
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Table of 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.