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The Goldman Sachs Group

The Goldman Sachs Group

WetFeet (Firm)

Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success (Touchstone, 2000) was written by Lisa Endlich, a former vice president at Goldman, and gives the firm's history from an insider's perspective; critics suggest that the book isn't as critical as it could be.
The Law Firm and the Public Good

The Law Firm and the Public Good

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Donald W. Hoagland is counsel to the Denver firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs. He has been with that firm since 1951, except for a leave of absence as assistant administrator for development finance and private enterprise in the Agency for ...
Downscoping: How to Tame the Diversified Firm

Downscoping: How to Tame the Diversified Firm

Robert E. Hoskisson

How to Tame the Diversified Firm Robert E. Hoskisson, Michael A. Hitt ... In August 1985 the LBO firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company made an offer to buy the company, and, after failing to elicit a white knight (a company, friendly to ...
Holy the Firm

Holy the Firm

Annie Dillard

Holy the Firm is a profound and breath-taking book about the natural world by a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most influential figures in contemporary non-fiction.
Economics and Ethics 1: The Microeconomic Basis

Economics and Ethics 1: The Microeconomic Basis

Wilhelm E. Krelle

We assume (with Martin Beckmann) that the firm is organized along hierarchical lines which is true for almost all firms of economic importance”. This allows us to estimate the size of the administration of a firm.” The basic idea is that each work  ...
Sudden death: the rise and fall of E.F. Hutton

Sudden death: the rise and fall of E.F. Hutton

Mark Stevens

Traces the transformation of the small but well-regarded financial firm into a major player on Wall Street, detailing how this unprecedented growth and accompanying poor management led to the firm's bankruptcy
The multimarket labour-managed firm and the effects of ...

The multimarket labour-managed firm and the effects of ...

Andrzej Baniak

The Multimarket Labour-Managed Firm and the Effects of Devaluation* Andrzej Baniak^ 11 October 1995 Abstract This paper analyzes the effect of a devaluation of the domestic currency on the behaviour of a labour-managed firm which sells ...
Fat to Firm at Any Age: How You Can Have a Slimmer, ...

Fat to Firm at Any Age: How You Can Have a Slimmer, ...

Alisa Bauman

A comprehensive collection of tested techniques for toning and slimming the body offers an individualized program including the Fat-to-Firm Eating Plan and Recipe Collection, fashion tips, and informative quizzes.
Das (wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment ...

Das (wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment ...

David Dollar

"Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China with firm-level accounting information for 2002-2004, this paper examines the presence of systematic distortions in ...
Trends in Long-term Care: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, ...

Trends in Long-term Care: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, ...

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On my immediate left is Mr. Thomas Sullivan of the firm of Jenner & Block, attorneys at law, and on his left is Mr. Allen Metz, associate counsel with the same firm. - Senator PERCY. It is your intention, Mr. Slader, to testify directly yourself and on ...
Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze

Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze

Svend Brinkmann

In this witty and bestselling book, Danish philosopher and psychologist Svend Brinkmann argues that we must not be afraid to reject the self-help mantra and 'stand firm'.
Hail! Hail!: Classic Celtic Old Firm Clashes

Hail! Hail!: Classic Celtic Old Firm Clashes

Martin Hannan

Highly entertaining and informative, Hail! Hail! is a must-read for supporters of Celtic, football fans in general and anyone who wonders what all the fuss over the Old Firm is about.
Office Design Sourcebook: Solutions for Dynamic Workspaces

Office Design Sourcebook: Solutions for Dynamic Workspaces

Justin Henderson

Whether it's an open loft space for a new high-tech firm, or a redesign for an old banking firm, this book showcases the best in today's office space design.
North Carolina Reports: Jones' Law

North Carolina Reports: Jones' Law

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Jarman v. Ellis. HENRY JARMAN v. JOSEPH J. ELLIS et al. Where the members of a firm gave a bond, individually, for a debt of the firm, and property was delivered by them and accepted as a payment thereof, it was Held that the bond was ...
Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ...

Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ...

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James Lawrence Ogden retired from the firm in 1865 and his brother admitted into partnership his nephews, John B. Huntting and Elias H. Ogden, and his brother-in-law, Charles A. Meigs. In 1868 Isaac Crane Ogden withdrew, and the firm ...
The Trouble with Lawyers

The Trouble with Lawyers

Deborah L. Rhode

117. at 80; Donald W. Hoagland, Community Service Makes Better Lawyers, in The Law Firm and the Public Good 104, 109 (1995); Jack W. Londen, The Impact of Pro Bono Work on Law Firm Economics, 9 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 925 (1996); ...
Investment dispersion and the business cycle

Investment dispersion and the business cycle

Rüdiger Bachmann

We show that a heterogeneous-firm real business cycle model with countercyclical idiosyncratic firm risk and non-convex adjustment costs calibrated to match moments of the long-run investment rate distribution, produces a time series ...
The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the ...

The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the ...

John D. Haeger

In Michigan, he worked with Edward Macy's Michigan Land Agency at Kalamazoo and with George Bates of the Detroit law firm of Bates and Talbot. William B. Ogden's Chicago firm handled the majority of the New Yorker's land business ...
The African Manufacturing Firm: An Analysis Based on Firm ...

The African Manufacturing Firm: An Analysis Based on Firm ...

Ata Mazaheri

For these smaller firms use was made of the GEMINI survey of small-scale and micro firms (most of them in the informal sector) held in August 1991 (Mead et al., 1993). The GEMINI survey was conducted in randomly selected areas throughout  ...
The Tenth Commandment

The Tenth Commandment

Lawrence Sanders

In this installment of Lawrence Sanders’s acclaimed Commandment series, a law firm investigator goes up against a cunning adversary who uses religion for retribution Joshua Bigg, an investigator for a Manhattan law firm, usually spends ...
Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie architects

Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie architects

Paul Goldberger

Highlights structures, both in the planning and executed stages, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects, that demonstrate the firm's sculptural achievements, including Da Monsta and the Glass House in ...
Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources

Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources

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Whom to Contact Robert Clyatt Type of Firm Private venture capital firm investing own Capital Project Preferences Role in Financing: Will function either as deal originator or investor in deals created by others Type of Financing: Seed Minimum ...
Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources

Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources

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Advisor Franc R.J. deWeeger, Bus. Advisor David L. Durgin, Majority Owner Whom to Contact Paul N. vosburgh Robert H. Rea David L. Durgin Type of Firm Private venture capital firm investing own capital Affiliation New Business Associates ...
Sale Catalogues: Miscellaneous]

Sale Catalogues: Miscellaneous]

American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

Miscellaneous] American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm). John Peter Zenger, 1727; also Zenger's Imprint of the Complaint of James Alexander and William Smith to the Committee of the General Assembly of New York, 1735; The  ...
Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the ...

Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the ...

Missouri. Supreme Court

“Bates & Bro.” and “ Bates & Co.,” two names for the firm composed of the brothers, George and Samuel A. Bates, succeeded Bates & Buehler. This firm and George Bates individually, became largely indebted. George had the management of ...
The Best of Cover Design: Books, Magazines, Catalogs, and More

The Best of Cover Design: Books, Magazines, Catalogs, and More

Altitude Associates

v DESIGN FIRM / Michael Osborne Design > DESIGN FIRM / Creative Page ART DIREcToR / Michael Osborne ART DiREcToR / Mike Barker DESIGNER / Cody Dingle DESIGNER / Mike Barker CLIENT / Crane 8r Co. CLIENT /Australian ...
McElroy's Philadelphia city directory

McElroy's Philadelphia city directory

Orrin Rogers (Firm)

Orrin Rogers (Firm) ... BAS BAU Bastian George, gentleman, 301 S 7th Bastian John, gentleman, 716 S 13th Bastian John, railroad broker, 407 Walnut, h 301 S Tth ... h 732 Coates Bates Franklin, 920 Market Bates Frederick, shoemaker, r 221 Christian Bates George, paperboxmanufacturer, 13 S 4th, h 225 Lombard Bates ...

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