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...idea of clamping down on executive pay before a firm is allowed to take part in the proposed $700 billion toxic-asset bailout program seems eminently reasonable. After all, we're talking about the very well-compensated execs - hello, eight figures - who ran the firms that drove the demand for the securities that caused the problems in the first place...
...near term the process could be painful." Renaissance says it had been in talks for some time and didn't act out of distress. But its move came a few days after the first financial institution fell victim to the crisis, a boutique investment bank and brokerage firm called KIT Finance, which defaulted on its debt when the markets shut down; it was rescued by an investment arm of the state energy giant Gazprom. Other erstwhile high-flying financial firms in Russia remain at risk. According to the business newspaper Kommersant, the Russian central bank has drawn...
...that means planning a future for our community which is surrounded on four sides by Harvard-owned property, too much of which seems to be mothballed till who knows when. Harvard’s Allston Development Group has begun construction of the mega-Science Complex, while its new consulting firm prepares a 50-year master plan for the new multi-billion dollar Allston Campus...
...similar project in exchange for a potentially speedier approval process for campus construction. PIM(P)co MY BAILOUT Less than a year after leaving Harvard to return to a wealthy private financial fund, Mohamed A. El-Erian said in an interview with Reuters that his $812-billion firm would offer to manage part of the government’s proposed $700-billion bailout package for no fee. El-Erian—who managed Harvard’s now-$36.9 billion endowment from 2006 until late last year—currently serves as chief executive of California-based PIMCO...
...recent market turmoil has directly affected the career paths of Harvard undergraduates who spent their summers interning at many of the global financial firms whose balance sheets have deteriorated in the last few weeks. A number of these students, who interned at investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, have seen their full-time offers enter a state of limbo. The Lehman offers extended to seniors who interned last summer are still under deliberation, according to Matthew P. Bresnahan ’09 who interned in Lehman’s Global Consumer/Retail Group. Bresnahan received an offer for full-time employment...