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...mild-mannered Prince has plenty of supporters. "Chuck has very good judgment, often in tough business situations," says Robert Greenhill, the veteran investment banker who ran Smith Barney and worked with Prince in the mid-1990s. Prince also wins high praise from his adversary in the stock research dustup, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Late last December, Spitzer was trying to wind up a $1.4 billion settlement with 10 brokerages (including Citi) that had been accused of misleading clients with faulty stock research. Spitzer feared that the talks were losing steam, so one morning he insisted that the major...
DIED. WINSTON GRAHAM, 93, author of 12 novels about the Poldark clan, which--as embodied in the hit BBC adaptation--made landowner-banker feuding in 18th century Cornwall seem sexy. Graham also wrote 28 other books, including Marnie, which became a Hitchcock thriller...
...VICTOR FUNG Brainy, well-traveled, well-spoken and well-liked, Fung, 57, seems eminently qualified to rescue Hong Kong's sick economy. He was once an investment banker and venture capitalist, used to head the Trade Development Council, is current chairman of the Airport Authority, and also runs his family firm, the successful blue-chip trading company Li & Fung...
...directors can make binding decisions. The affair is particularly embarrassing for Viénot, a distinguished banker who authored two reports on French corporate governance in the 1990s. He quit the board last fall and isn't commenting. As Vivendi is finding to its cost, even the best French expert can get things wrong. Hmm ... This may be a bit too fair Britain announced plans to ban age discrimination in the workplace by October 2006. In line with an E.U. directive, it will outlaw mandatory retirement ages, end ageist job advertising, and allow Britons the choice of working until they...
...seemed like a colossal blunder at the time,” says Sherwood E. Bain ’45, who has analyzed and written about Harvard’s finances for years as a Boston investment banker...