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...original investors who helped finance the French Laundry, Keller is more a rare creative talent who needs to be nurtured--a Michelangelo in the Medici court--than an opportunity to squeeze ever higher returns out of their investment. "It is not about maximizing profit," says Joe Wender, an advisory director with Goldman Sachs in New York City who recently moved to Napa and sits on Keller's council. "Moving to New York is one of the most high-risk things he could do. It is Thomas saying, 'I want to create something great and unique in the New York market...
...seen him once before that summer of 1999, several months earlier. He had stood 12 feet tall, on a movie screen in San Francisco, taking his unlikely star turn as himself in Wim Wender's documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club, the band that a year earlier had won Segundo a Grammy and generally elevated him and a handful of his compatriots from obscure relics of Cuba's golden age to international superstars, icons of the newly rediscovered grace and warmth behind the iron veil of the Cuban embargo...
...They really value recruiting heavily and getting really smart people from a lot of the top schools to go there immediately and work [as merchandisers for Abercrombie],” says Naomi J. Wender ’03, who recently accepted a merchandising position with the firm beginning next year...
...found the number one reason why people would give was if they were asked. We just had to sit people down and talk to them,” said Naomi J. Wender...
Mather House’s participation rate jumped 60 percent in the last week, according to Wender...