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Like most popular managers, L. Brooks Entwistle, head of Goldman Sachs India, maintains an open-door policy. Entwistle admits, however, that this accessibility hasn't always been by choice. "When your entire office is a hotel room packed with desks, you can't help getting to know your colleagues," he says...
...laughs at the memory now, but those cramped quarters served as the unlikely launching pad for the investment bank's billion-dollar bet on India. Entwistle's version of sightseeing in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is a tour of the old Goldman outposts in India's financial hub. First stop, suite 1034 at the Hilton--down the hall from a group of Thai masseuses and rotating airline crews--where Goldman set up shop in late 2005, with Entwistle as employee No. 1. Next, a second temporary home in a worn-down office building abutting a sprawling slum. When rains flooded...
...Goldman Sachs cut ties in March 2006 with a halfhearted joint venture it had held for more than 10 years and pledged $1 billion in investment capital for India. Entwistle says he immediately got to work convincing Mumbai's business community that Goldman is in India full force. He told them, "We've brought the boats ashore, and we're burning them...
...Facebook-friended your famous classmates and Googled your roommate, but you might consider searching for them on YouTube as well. You’ll probably need to blackmail them at some point during your Harvard career or when you’re both competing for that cushy job at Goldman Sachs six years down the line. In fact, you should probably just log onto Facebook right now and download one embarrassing photo of everyone in your class, because at least eight of them will make a run for president at some point. And when they do, guess whose farm will...
Plotkin, once a member of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, partnered up with a colleague at Goldman Sachs, David Pajcin, to form the insider-trading ring. Pajcin is cooperating with authorities...