Word: cioffi
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...jury found a pair of former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers not guilty of securities fraud. At the center of the case was an e-mail that one of the managers, Matthew Tannin, sent to his colleague Ralph Cioffi indicating he was concerned about the health of their fund. Publicly, Tannin continued to tell investors he was confident the fund would perform well. (See the financial crisis after one year...
...case has drawn attention even though Cioffi and Tannin were relatively unknown. The hedge-fund managers are the only Wall Streeters who have faced criminal charges relating to the subprime-mortgage mess. Because of that, many saw it as a litmus test for cases against others who were thought to have had a role in causing last year's financial crisis. But the case may ultimately have much greater significance. The not-guilty outcome may signal the end of the era of e-mail prosecutions...
Then there is the case against Cioffi and Tannin. In April 2007, Tannin told Cioffi in an e-mail that there was "simply no way for us to make money - ever," for investors in their fund. Then several days later, Tannin told investors in a conference call that he was "comfortable" that his fund would continue to go up. The e-mail makes it look like Tannin was lying to his investors, but the e-mail that prosecutors cited was just one of many between the two managers. At other times, the managers seemed to be less sure that...
...range even embraces a look at the moral ethos the school should attempt to embody, which is beyond the more technical questions of the mainline Curricular Review emphasis. Robert L. Cioffi ’05 and Katherine DiSalvo ’05 both look beyond mere “veritas” and call for a Harvard education that seeks to inspire its students “to serve thy society and thy kind,” as Dexter Gate instructs...
...teaching to students to sympathize with the “needs and values of others”—an essential skill often dismissed in today’s jargon as “soft” or “non-cognitive.” And Cioffi suggests an alternate path to ethical development through his defense of the humanities. Literary study, he says, “will help us to live better, more considerate, and crucially, more moral lives...