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...friend of mine once joked that were I to become an investment banker, “hostile takeovers will be in pink.” I am not sure how I will use the colors in my future life, but I am glad that this set was with me through college. My pens represent everything I have loved most about this school and I hope I will continue to need them...
...raise $82.5 million—over $575 million today—by Commencement Day of 1959. The drive would be the largest in the history of American higher education, and would mark the first modern fundraising campaign undertaken by a university, according to historian of Harvard Morton Keller. Investment banker Alexander M. White ‘25, a partner in the New York based White, Weld & Company firm, was named general chairman of the program by Pusey in 1956. Working with him would be Thomas S. Lamont ‘21 of J.P. Morgan & Company and David Rockefeller...
...from antiquated Sanders, Harvard still has no proper theatre. Student producers must make do with what space they can find: common rooms and dining halls, a museum courtyard, a disused swimming pool, even a roped off street,” the program wrote in promotional material. New York investment banker John L. Loeb ’24 contributed $1 million of the $1.5 million needed for the Loeb Drama Center, which opened in 1960. Four years later construction finished on the final building to come out of the campaign, William James Hall, the new home of the Behavioral Sciences Department...
Raasuke says his bank's experience with Swedbank is a good illustration of how Baltic Sea countries can work together. As a young banker in Tallinn, his first contact with the outside world after his country gained independence from Moscow in 1991 was with Finns and Swedes. They were ready to offer young bankers, new to capitalism, advice on how to organize such things as international payments. "Here were these tiny nations splitting off from the Soviet Union and we needed help," says Raasuke. Later, he adds, his bank needed equity following the Russian ruble crisis...
With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels like the work space of an investment banker or hedge-fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, the daytime television show flickering on his sleek, flat-screen set betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...