TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Charles D. TI - The partnership: the making of Goldman Sachs SN - 9780143116127 (pbk.) AV - HG 4930.5 E47p 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Penguin Books KW - Goldman, Sachs & Co KW - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc KW - Investment banking KW - United States KW - Banca de inversión KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [713]-733) and index; Beginnings -- Disaster: Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation -- The long road back -- Ford: the largest IPO -- Transition years -- Gus Levy -- The wreck of the Penn Central -- Getting great at selling -- Block trading: the risky business that roared -- Revolution in investment banking -- Principles -- The two Johns -- Bonds: the early years -- Figuring out private client services -- J. Aron: ugly duckling -- Tender defense, a magic carpet -- The uses and abuses of research -- John Weinberg -- Innocents abroad -- Breaking and entering -- How BP almost became a dry hole -- Changing the guard -- Transformation -- False starts in investment management -- Robert Maxwell, the client from hell -- Making arbitrage a business -- J'accuse -- Building a global business -- Steve quit! -- Collecting the best -- Jon Corzine -- Long-term capital management -- Coup -- Getting investment management right -- Paulson's disciplines -- Before the storm -- The perfect storm N2 - With unparalleled access to the firm's leadership, Ellis chronicles the brilliant individuals who built one of the world's largest investment banks ER -