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Running a big-time Wall Street firm is not like running a carmaker. GE wonderboss Jack Welch cried uncle shortly after acquiring Kidder Peabody in 1986, and the Solomonic Warren Buffett couldn't run fast enough from his interim job as chief of Salomon Brothers in 1992. So you can see why stumbling CSFB grabbed Mack, whose own record for running a clean ship is pretty much unblemished. Mack was even rumored to be on the short list to succeed Arthur Levitt as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's known for giving egocentric bankers--Quattrone while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing The Tech Stock Factory | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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