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...works there, 24/7. And being there makes all the difference. A Yale liberal-arts graduate, Prouty spent the first 20 years of his career at Citibank as a senior credit officer lending to multinational companies, and the next 15 financing $100 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions at Lazard Freres before exiting as a general partner. Prouty could have retired. "But that was a sure way to feel like an old man on the shelf," says Prouty, 61. "Instead I chose to work with people half my age and twice as smart...
...Harvard's 800-page coursebook doesn't offer tactics training (needed to bomb Iraq) or accounting (essential when applying to Lazard Freres), it's damn lucky that kids of the Crimson can fall back on Boston's other academic options. Cross-registering, be it with the Law School, the Design School, the Divinity School or MIT, can present a logistical nightmare. A cross-registree must file multiple forms, with myriad signatures, by multitudinous FAS deadlines-regardless of the time table the other school uses. Moreover, only courses taught by Harvard or MIT professors are fair game. Before...
Gates was surprised to learn that such a statement would be cheap: $1 billion could buy about 11% of Comcast. (A similar slice of his company would cost $18 billion.) Roberts soon returned to Seattle with his investment banker Steven Rattner, the newly elevated deputy CEO of Lazard Freres in New York City. Like Roberts and Gates, Rattner is a low-key baby boomer with an intense interest in media and technology. On a Tuesday morning, four weeks after the dinner, Gates and Greg Maffei, Microsoft vice president for corporate development, went to Rattner's suite at the Woodmark Hotel...
...outlet for Fox's children's programming, thus creating a potent challenger to Viacom's Nickelodeon. "Acquisition of the Family Channel would mark another step in Murdoch's drive to establish a dominant presence in production, packaging and distribution," says Steven Rattner, a media-investment banker at Lazard Freres. "It looks smart...
PARIS: With the death of Pamela Harriman, the diplomatic post par excellence is a toss-up between Frank Wisner, the most senior member of the U.S. foreign service, and New York financier Felix Rohatyn. But only Monsieur Felix has the means and Lazard Freres connections to entertain in the grand style of the City of Light...