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...consider that the majority of important commission votes have ended up strictly along party lines—three-to-two or two-to-three. Most recently, the vote to bring suit against what President Obama has implied as the center of all evil on Wall Street—Goldman Sachs??broke down to a vote of three Democrats against two Republicans. It was blatantly obvious to everyone that the SEC was politically motivated to bring this suit now so as to move the financial reform bill forward in the Congress. Whether true or not, that?...
These days, everyone is saying it—Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn say it, The Nike Foundation’s “Girl Effect” campaign says it, Goldman Sachs?? “10,000 Women” initiative says it: Educational initiatives for girls in the third world are the key to a successful international development strategy. As Harvard University President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers observed years ago in a speech to a Development Economics Seminar at the World Bank, “When one takes into account all its benefits, educating girls...
...just less than a year, Forst, who formerly served as Goldman Sachs?? chief administrative officer, had refinanced Harvard’s capital structure to reduce the University’s risk in its investment strategies. From his vantage point in Mass. Hall, Forst—described as “data-driven” by Christine M. Heenan, the University’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs—was able to identify inefficiencies in the University’s administrative system and consolidate University-wide procurement of resources, Shore says. Perhaps his years...
...Since Goldman Sachs??s Jim O’Neil started promoting his dream of the BRICs—developing markets in Brazil, Russia, India and China—in 2001, Brazil has often been considered the ugly duckling of the group. Next to a former superpower and two ancient civilizations boasting over one billion citizens, the South American giant may have seemed Lilliputian. But the global economic crisis has made a huge difference. Brazil’s admirable resistance to the current turmoil vindicates its placement. It also strengthens the judgment that the B-side of the BRIC...
...internship with Goldman Sachs??s portfolio advisory group during his sophomore summer caused Anguas to change his thinking...