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...world-renowned Harvard Medical School infectious disease specialist had spent parts of three years with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder ’67 by his side. Now, with Kidder’s book on the verge of release, he wasn’t sure he liked what...
...When I read the manuscript and told him I felt a bit over-exposed, [Kidder] expressed a bit of genuine sympathy with my predicament but did not offer to change anything,” Farmer writes in an e-mail...
While Kates was described as a dedicated worker, his priorities were his family and friends. He was friendly and was described by his children to be “such a big kidder...
Welch wasn't perfect--retailer Montgomery Ward and brokerage Kidder Peabody were businesses that blew up on his watch--but GE stock has risen close to 4,000% and the company has consistently delivered 10% to 20% in annual earnings growth. Even during the current downturn, GE posted a healthy 15% rise in second-quarter earnings, though its stock has fallen 33% since its most recent high of $60 last August. No wonder, then, that as Immelt put it at the company's annual managers' meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., in January, "everybody at GE thinks they work for Jack...
Running a big-time Wall Street firm is not like running a carmaker. GE wonderboss Jack Welch cried uncle shortly after acquiring Kidder Peabody in 1986, and the Solomonic Warren Buffett couldn't run fast enough from his interim job as chief of Salomon Brothers in 1992. So you can see why stumbling CSFB grabbed Mack, whose own record for running a clean ship is pretty much unblemished. Mack was even rumored to be on the short list to succeed Arthur Levitt as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's known for giving egocentric bankers--Quattrone while...