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The inside story of one of the world?s most powerful financial Institutions
Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis, who worked as a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than thirty years, reveals the secrets behind the firm?s continued success through many life-threatening changes. Disgraced and nearly destroyed in 1929, Goldman Sachs limped along as a break-even operation through the Depression and WWII. But with only one special service and one improbable banker, it began the stage-by-stage rise that took the firm to global leadership, even in the face of the world-wide credit crisis.
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Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis, who worked as a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than thirty years, reveals the secrets behind the firm?s continued success through many life-threatening changes. Disgraced and nearly destroyed in 1929, Goldman Sachs limped along as a break-even operation through the Depression and WWII. But with only one special service and one improbable banker, it began the stage-by-stage rise that took the firm to global leadership, even in the face of the world-wide credit crisis.
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With unparalleled access to the firm's enigmatic leadership, The Partnership chronicles the brilliant, men who built one of the world's largest investment banks.
Goldman Sachs is the most profitable and powerful investment bank in the world today. Fifty years ago it was a marginal family firm with limited prospects. How did it ascend to leadership in Europe, Asia, North and South America; make many, many partners fabulous fortunes; and become the leader in IPOs, M&A, FX, bond dealing, stockbrokerage, derivatives, hedge funds, private equity, and real estate?
As a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than thirty years, Charles D. Ellis developed close relationships with many of the firm's past and present leaders around the world. In The Partnership he probes deeply into the most important chapters in the firm's history, revealing the key events and decisions that tell the colorful, character-driven story of how Goldman Sachs became what it is today.
Ellis tells the illuminating stories of the great personalities who sowed the seeds of Goldman Sachs's success: from Sidney Weinberg, a junior high school drop out with a flair for markets; to Gus Levy, who brought a ferocious intensity to every minute of every workday; to John Whitehead, who wrote the core values that defined a culture of teamwork in serving clients; to the unpretentious John Weinberg, who was the quintessential relationship banker of his era; to Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson, who both became secretary of the treasury; to Governor Jon Corzine; and finally to current CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein.
Starting as a sole proprietorship dealing in commercial paper in the mid-nineteenth century, Goldman Sachs became an innovative underwriter; struggled to survive the crash and Depression, and came out of World War II to complete what was then the single most important transaction in Wall Street's history: Ford Motor Company's IPO. Goldman Sachs overcame a full set of dramatic perils: Penn Central's bankruptcy, Robert Maxwell's abusive frauds, and insider trading scandals. Ellis demonstrates how the firm's core values, intensive recruiting, entrepreneurial creativity, and disciplined risk taking—incorporating technology and hard work—laid the foundations, multiplied the firm's resources and profits, and magnified its power until it became today's Goldman Sachs: one of the most successful business organizations in the world.
Goldman Sachs is the most profitable and powerful investment bank in the world today. Fifty years ago it was a marginal family firm with limited prospects. How did it ascend to leadership in Europe, Asia, North and South America; make many, many partners fabulous fortunes; and become the leader in IPOs, M&A, FX, bond dealing, stockbrokerage, derivatives, hedge funds, private equity, and real estate?
As a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than thirty years, Charles D. Ellis developed close relationships with many of the firm's past and present leaders around the world. In The Partnership he probes deeply into the most important chapters in the firm's history, revealing the key events and decisions that tell the colorful, character-driven story of how Goldman Sachs became what it is today.
Ellis tells the illuminating stories of the great personalities who sowed the seeds of Goldman Sachs's success: from Sidney Weinberg, a junior high school drop out with a flair for markets; to Gus Levy, who brought a ferocious intensity to every minute of every workday; to John Whitehead, who wrote the core values that defined a culture of teamwork in serving clients; to the unpretentious John Weinberg, who was the quintessential relationship banker of his era; to Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson, who both became secretary of the treasury; to Governor Jon Corzine; and finally to current CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein.
Starting as a sole proprietorship dealing in commercial paper in the mid-nineteenth century, Goldman Sachs became an innovative underwriter; struggled to survive the crash and Depression, and came out of World War II to complete what was then the single most important transaction in Wall Street's history: Ford Motor Company's IPO. Goldman Sachs overcame a full set of dramatic perils: Penn Central's bankruptcy, Robert Maxwell's abusive frauds, and insider trading scandals. Ellis demonstrates how the firm's core values, intensive recruiting, entrepreneurial creativity, and disciplined risk taking—incorporating technology and hard work—laid the foundations, multiplied the firm's resources and profits, and magnified its power until it became today's Goldman Sachs: one of the most successful business organizations in the world.
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32 人中、32人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Well researched, poorly edited
2009/7/6
形式:ハードカバー
Fascinating book, but the fact that it weighs in at nearly 700 pages shows that the editor was absent or lax. There's incredible repetition. For example, in one long paragraph, we learn that Goldman Sachs believed that "recruiting was the most important thing we could ever do." Moreover, "Recruiting people of exceptional talent...is vital to the success of any professional firm." We get the point, and don't need it belabored for eight sentences in the same paragraph. Examples like that abound.
The lousy editing is also seen when Ellis introduces characters in passing, without giving a sense of where they come from, or what their titles are. It would have been nice to have had a simple list of the senior partners or managing partners throughout the years.
It also would have been nice to have a glossary. Ellis is good at explaining that obscure financial instruments are complex--yet apparently they're so complex that even he doesn't understand them, because he sure doesn't explain them.
All of which leads to a question: Did any editor actually read the manuscript?
The lousy editing is also seen when Ellis introduces characters in passing, without giving a sense of where they come from, or what their titles are. It would have been nice to have had a simple list of the senior partners or managing partners throughout the years.
It also would have been nice to have a glossary. Ellis is good at explaining that obscure financial instruments are complex--yet apparently they're so complex that even he doesn't understand them, because he sure doesn't explain them.
All of which leads to a question: Did any editor actually read the manuscript?
17 人中、15人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A History Of A Survivor
2008/10/12
形式:ハードカバー
In his massive history of Goldman Sachs (over 700+ pages), Mr. Ellis gives a glowing and comprehensive history of the the investment bank. He writes as the insider he is (a former consultant to the firm) and is not as critical of Goldman Sachs as he could be. Founded nearly 150 years ago, he traces the firm's roots and growth, its downturns (the Depressions and the 1970's) and it re-intervention of itself repeatedly. The financial carnage of the past month is not covered obviously, but Goldman Sachs new survival has its origin in its 2007 decision to get out of the mortage business before the current crisis.
8 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Extremely poorly written:
2010/2/24
形式:ペーパーバック
Please note, I do not attempt to review the full substance of this book, yet.
Only twenty-three pages into this book, it is readily apparent that Mr. Ellis is a terrible writer. Mr. Ellis begins the book with the story of the original Goldman Sachs partnership and its familial underpinnings. So poorly written, I was force to read, and reread, passages to understand relationships as simple as father-son, that Mr. Ellis could have easily made clear.
The very same mistakes were made during the introduction of Lehman Brothers. And again when discussing the split between the two firms.
I will forge on because I am interested in the story. And I will post a proper review when/if I am able to finish.
But be warned - Mr. Ellis is a TERRIBLE writer. And Penguin Publishing, please hire a capable editor.
Also, please note that The Economist (my main reason for buying the book), Business Week, Time, NY Times Book Review, Financial Times, Boston Globe, and Bloomberg all gave very good to great reviews. I now wonder if these people read the book. I am disappointed in each of them.
Only twenty-three pages into this book, it is readily apparent that Mr. Ellis is a terrible writer. Mr. Ellis begins the book with the story of the original Goldman Sachs partnership and its familial underpinnings. So poorly written, I was force to read, and reread, passages to understand relationships as simple as father-son, that Mr. Ellis could have easily made clear.
The very same mistakes were made during the introduction of Lehman Brothers. And again when discussing the split between the two firms.
I will forge on because I am interested in the story. And I will post a proper review when/if I am able to finish.
But be warned - Mr. Ellis is a TERRIBLE writer. And Penguin Publishing, please hire a capable editor.
Also, please note that The Economist (my main reason for buying the book), Business Week, Time, NY Times Book Review, Financial Times, Boston Globe, and Bloomberg all gave very good to great reviews. I now wonder if these people read the book. I am disappointed in each of them.
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