Archive for April 2008
Early Birds (Dealmaker Apr/May 2008)
Early Birds: At 540 Park, power breakfasters always get the worm.
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the power breakfast could prove the most important meal of your career...particularly at 540 Park at the Loews Regency Hotel, the legendary Midtown eatery that gave birth to Manhattan’s morning-meeting tradition.
Seeing Eye to Eye (Dealmaker Apr/May 2008)
Seeing Eye to Eye: Morgan Stanley’s Peter Crnkovich takes up his firm’s charitable legacy.
In 1997, Morgan Stanley’s Peter Crnkovich was faced with a question many parents dread: “Dad, can I have a puppy?” Little did he know the answer to his then-11-year-old daughter’s prayers would lead him to a longstanding role on the board of The Seeing Eye, a Morristown, New Jersey–based nonprofit that trains canine companions for the blind.
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Romancing the Stone (Trader Monthly Apr/May 2008)
Romancing the Stone: For decades, Martin Rapaport has tried to create diamond futures, running afoul of the industry. A study in tenacity.
“We’re at the very beginning of the birth process,” says Martin Rapaport of his crusade to launch a futures contract for diamonds. His tone is strikingly upbeat for someone whose life’s work has been marred by so much failure. “Something has to happen.”
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