Archive for December 2007
Old New York (Dealmaker Dec 2007)
Old New York: In the wine cellar at 21, the history is as full-bodied as the burgundy
Though never technically a private establishment, New York’s 21 Club, which opened on New Year’s Eve 1930, has the rarefied feeling of an exclusive institution — a sense perhaps best exemplified by its “secret” wine cellar. Read the rest of this entry »
Angel Investors (Dealmaker Dec 2007)
Angel Investors: Boston’s LBO kingpins team up against cystic fibrosis
Days after Joseph O’Donnell Jr. was delivered at Massachusetts’s Melrose-Wakefield Hospital on May 1, 1974, his parents learned that their son had been born with cystic fibrosis, a disabling hereditary disease of the lungs. Every breath he took for the rest of his short life would be a triumph. That’s when Joey’s dad, the senior Joseph O’Donnell — a graduate of Harvard Business School and the founder of a local food-and-beverage company — got involved with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, attempting to learn as much as he could about the disease in the hopes of saving his first child’s life. The panacea never came. Read the rest of this entry »
Paradise Found (Private Air: December 2007)
Paradise Found: At these new super-exclusive Caribbean hideaways, you never have to worry about the secret getting out.
Look-Alike Option (Trader Monthly Dec 2007)
Look-Alike Option: Ballsy Ivy Leaguers are back yet again in the latest from Ben Mezrich
A TWENTYSOMETHING Harvard Business School graduate visits a foreign country, romps with models, conducts some shady back-alley business and single-handedly revolutionizes the financial markets. Sound familiar? No, it’s not Ugly Americans Part Deux: The Smell of Fear — it’s Rigged, the latest from Ben Mezrich’s seemingly bottomless well of “nonfiction” novels chronicling the lives of young hot-shot Ivy League financial pirates out to take over the world. Read the rest of this entry »
