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The accidental investment banker : inside the decade that transformed Wall Street / Jonathan A. Knee.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knee, Jonathan A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investment banking--United States.
- Investment banking.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 254 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an industry in free fall, Knee captures an exhilarating era of fabulous dealmaking in a freewheeling Internet economy--and the catastrophe that followed when the bubble burst.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195307925
- OCLC:
- 65819926
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195307924
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