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...with reorienting AMEX’s financial focus, increasing its market share and winning back clients by cutting fees, according to BusinessWeek. In fiscal year 2006, Chenault netted $1.1 million in salary and nearly six times that in bonuses, according to Forbes.com. Originally from New York City, Chenault graduated magna cum laude in history from Bowdoin College in 1973 and then moved to Cambridge to attend law school. Armed with his HLS degree, Chenault worked for a brief time as an attorney at Rogers & Wells before crossing the line into the financial world as a management consultant for Bain...
...Nieman Foundation for Journalism. The fellowship supports investigative projects that exemplify Chris Georges’ commitment to in-depth reporting on issues of enduring social value and the human impact of public policy.Chris Georges ’87 was an executive editor of The Crimson and a magna cum laude graduate of the College. As a reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, he covered politics, economics, and budget issues. Three of his stories on the welfare system were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Georges also served as editor of The Washington Monthly...
...built, like Pick-a-Pair victories, on risk, a little luck and pricing assets: calculating, assessing value and never overbidding. (And against a ticking clock.) People who do that are the ones who amass billions, drive the economy and bankroll politicians. They don't need to know when the Magna Carta was signed; they hire the guy who does...
...Nieman Foundation for Journalism. The fellowship supports investigative projects that exemplify Chris Georges’ commitment to in-depth reporting on issues of enduring social value and the human impact of public policy.Chris Georges ’87 was an executive editor of The Crimson and a magna cum laude graduate of the College. As a reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, he covered politics, economics, and budget issues. Three of his stories on the welfare system were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Georges also served as editor of The Washington Monthly...
...greatness of great art.”THE BEATLES AS ROSETTA STONEMuch of Adams’s musical education came from outside the classroom, he says.“I didn’t go to a lot of classes,” he says, although he graduated magna cum laude.He filled his time with listening to popular records of the day, he says.“I learned harmony by listening to the Beatles and John Coltrane, then playing,” Adams recalls. He vividly remembers the day in early June of 1967 when the Beatles released their...