Word: sarofim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think entrepreneurship is not just limited to starting a new business. It is the organizing to pursue opportunity instead of managing the resources you currently control," said Howard H. Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, who teaches a course called "Entreprenuerial Management...
...sort of mysterious force in the financial world. Doing business simply under the name of Arthur Rock & Co., he works out of a modest office in San Francisco's financial district with only a secretary for a staff. Rock's closest friend is Egyptian-born Financier Fayez Sarofim, who is based in Houston...
Rock will stand by investments that do not become bonanzas. He helped nurse Qantel, a business-computer company, for several years until it reached sales of $49 million. It was finally sold in 1980 for $34 million. Notes his friend Sarofim: "The investors still came out ahead, but we were spoiled. We didn't make as much money as we usually...
...trying to do so, money managers run the risk of drowning. Fayez Sarofim, an Egyptian-born pension-fund adviser based in Houston, did remarkably well for his clients in the mid-1970s by holding stocks of international oil companies. But when oil prices started sagging in the 1980s, so did the market value of Sarofim's investments. He has lost several big clients and perhaps $1 billion of the $9 billion or so he was managing...
...Sarofim said MIT's agreement with Exxon is modeled on a contract between Harvard and the Monsanto Corporation for medical research...