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The devil's casino friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers

Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices where you'll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses.

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Main Author: Ward, Vicky
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2010.
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Lehman Brothers.
Investment banking > United States > History.
Investment advisors > United States > History.
Finance > United States > History.
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Summary:Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices where you'll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses.
Physical Description:xvii, 270 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780470540862 (cloth)
0470540869 (cloth)
Author Notes:VICKY WARD has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2001, specializing in investigative reporting. She has profiled, among others, Jean-Marie Messier, Carly Fiorina, CIA agent Valerie Plame, businesswoman Louise MacBain, Morgan Stanley, the late Bruce Wasserstein, counterterrorism expert Rich-ard Clarke, François Pinault, the Getty, the Guggenheim, Fairfield Greenwich Group (a Madoff feeder fund), Brooke Astor, and Kate Moss. Ward is a weekly columnist for the Huffington Post and a contributor to CNBC. She was previously the executive editor of Talk magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times , the Financial Times , the London Times , and the Daily Telegraph . A native Briton, Ward was the runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1994, Britain's most prestigious award for young women writers. She holds a master's degree in English literature from Cambridge University and has lived in New York City since 1997.

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