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...Broadband is a role model or an aberration, it's hard to argue with the numbers. PCCW has been signing up about 70% of all new pay-TV subscribers in Hong Kong; it will be the city's top provider of pay TV by 2009, according to a recent Goldman Sachs report. "Other phone companies are watching this closely," says Media Partners' executive director Vivek Couto. If Li can revive his new-media business model, maybe others can as well...
Nationwide, shoppers are also turning to the internet to make their holiday purchases. According to the “Holiday eSpending Report” released yesterday by Goldman Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings, online purchases during the first six weeks of the holiday season have spiked 28 percent over previous years. While last year online shoppers spent $13 billion, this year they have dished out $16.7 billion during the same period, with much of the growth driven by music, video, DVD and jewelry sales...
...idea of how different things are at the New York Stock Exchange these days, peek inside the office of CEO John Thain, the M.I.T. grad and former president of Goldman Sachs who had to be talked into taking the job after former CEO and chairman Richard Grasso's bitter departure amid an excessive-pay flap and charges of board cronyism. Grasso, a passionate stock-exchange lifer, famously littered his office with several hundred treasured mementos from the companies whose shares are traded at the exchange. The more clinical Thain, 49, displays mainly his own collection of modern...
...From a Goldman Sachs recruiting cover letter: Fifteen Minutes exemplifies all the qualities I hope to bring to your institution—dedication, wit, a love of the craft and, above all, a subtle mix of both overt arrogance and unabashed obsequiousness...
...sciences and humanities. At Harvard, during this election season, employee groups gave 19 times more in campaign donations to John Kerry than George W. Bush, and they constituted the second largest source of group donations to the Kerry campaign in the entire country, ahead of runners up Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft...