| Description |
xvi, 729 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Beginnings -- 2. Disaster: Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation -- 3. The Long Road Back -- 4. Ford: The Largest Ipo -- 5. Transition Years -- 6. Gus Levy -- 7. The Wreck of the Penn Central -- 8. Getting Great at Selling -- 9. Block Trading: The Risky Business That Roared -- 10. Revolution in Investment Banking -- 11. Principles -- 12. The Two Johns -- 13. Bonds: The Early Years -- 14. Figuring Out Private Client Services -- 15. J. Aron: Ugly Duckling -- 16. Tender Defense, a Magic Carpet -- 17. The Uses and Abuses of Research -- 18. John Weinberg -- 19. Innocents Abroad -- 20. Breaking and Entering -- 21. How Bp Almost Became a Dry Hole -- 22. Changing the Guard -- 23. Transformation -- 24. False Starts in Investment Management -- 25. Robert Maxwell, the Client from Hell -- 26. Making Arbitrage a Business -- 27. J'accuse -- 28. Building a Global Business -- 29. Steve Quit! -- 30. Collecting the Best -- 31. Jon Corzine -- 32. Long-Term Capital Management -- 33. Coup |
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34. Getting Investment Management Right -- 35. Paulson's Disciplines -- 36. Lloyd Blankfein, Risk Manager |
| Summary |
"As a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than thirty years, Charles D. Ellis developed close relationships with many of the firm's past and present leaders. In The Partnership he probes deeply into the most important chapters in the firm's history, revealing the key events and decisions that tell the colorful, character-driven story of how Goldman Sachs became what it is today."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-709) and index |
| Subject |
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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Investment banking -- United States.
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| LC no. |
2008025228 |
| ISBN |
9781594201899 |
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