The accidental investment banker : inside the decade that transformed Wall Street / Jonathan A. Knee.
Jonathan A. Knee had a ringside seat during the go-go, boom-and-bust decade and into the 21st century, at the two most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an industry in free fall, Knee captures anexhi...
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- A chicken in every pot
- The accidental investment banker
- An empire of its own
- "Let's ask Sydney Weinberg"
- What investment bankers really do
- The culture of M & A
- The rise of John Thornton
- The House of Morgan
- Cracks in the façade
- Drama of the gifted banker
- Take a walk on the buy-side
- "Save the red carpet for the talent"
- View from the top
- The myth of meritocracy
- King of the SLCs
- The long goodbye.