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...Wassersteins are long-time donors to both the Law School and Harvard Business School. The family’s most prominent member, Lazard CEO Bruce J. Wasserstein, is an alumnus of both institutions and has been a major benefactor of HLS. He was one of 11 alumni who gave $5.1 million to the school in 2003. In addition, the Wasserstein family has endowed both a professorship and public-interest law fellowship at the law school...
Bruce Wasserstein is also a close friend of former Law School Dean Robert C. Clark, who has served on the boards of several companies controlled by Wasserstein, including Lazard, Maybelline, and American Lawyer Media Holdings...
...shares and have never seemed interested in selling their baby; they want it fixed. One possibility: breaking up the company into three more-nimble parts, with each brand focused on a specific customer demographic. "The combination is overly complex and unmanageable," says Todd Slater, managing director at Lazard Capital Markets. Whether or not it remains one intact company, industry experts say Gap will have to get back to the fashion basics at its flagship or risk losing even its undisputed title as the king of khaki...
...Laurence S. Grafstein ’82, a former Crimson executive editor who is now head of global telecommunications at Lazard, notes that, although Kristof never held a leadership position at The Crimson, he earned wide respect for frequently helping out with “galley proofing”—a key part of the corrections process, which often lasted until...
...engineer by training, Lauvergeon worked as an aide to French President Franois Mitterrand before joining the Lazard investment bank. In the late 1990s, the government asked her to take over Cogema, a state-owned nuclear reprocessing company. Convinced that nuclear power had a big future, she orchestrated a merger with the other state-owned nuclear company, Framatome, which built plants and mined uranium, to create a French colossus. She has sought to create a positive image for the firm and for nuclear power in general by sponsoring the French yacht in the America's Cup race and by launching...