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...ceremonies as his body was taken by train from Washington to his home of Springfield--was an intense ambiguity: stories circulated regularly about him as a religious doubter, a teller of vulgar stories, an uncouth and awkward man, a usurper of power. But Republicans saw him as a great asset and tried to build a myth that would last--and do the party lasting good. In May 1865, the Republican editor Josiah Holland interviewed the President's law partner William Herndon at length. When the subject of religion came up, Herndon told him, "The less said, the better," doubting that...
...that Peterson never thanked him. Glucksman was mercurial, an "emotional volcano" in the phrase of a colleague, who might kiss or curse fellow employees but who almost never ignored them. Peterson represented the lordly tradition of "relationship banking," in which camaraderie with corporate clients was the firm's chief asset. On the strength of his status as former Secretary of Commerce, he arrived at Lehman in 1973 as vice chairman. Two months later he became the boss. Among his deputies was Glucksman, who for two decades battled the disdain of Lehman's investment bankers toward traders. He believed that relationship...
Meyer says that his successor will have a number of options for the direction to take Harvard’s endowment. One possibility, he says, is that the new CEO could choose to maintain internal management for some assets, but increase the use of outside managers, changing the mix from 50 percent invested externally to, say, 65 percent. Another potential choice facing the CEO is for Harvard to invest securities through hedge funds via external managers but focus its in-house efforts on asset classes like timber...
...Shelley has been a tremendous asset to the team throughout her career,” captain Kate Gannon said. “She obviously stepped it up her senior year, especially with her role as the primary hitter and goal scorer on corners this year...
Meyer says that his successor will have a number of options for the direction to take Harvard’s endowment. One possibility, he says, is that the new CEO could choose to maintain internal management for some assets, but increase the use of outside managers, changing the mix from 50 percent invested externally to, say, 65 percent. Another potential choice facing the CEO is for Harvard to invest securities through hedge funds via external managers but focus its in-house efforts on asset classes like timber...