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Last week, Dina Powell-McCormick exited the firm after two tours of duty totaling 16 years.
William D. Cohan June 7, 2023
Dina Powell-McCormick is the latest in a surprisingly high-level cohort of partners exiting the bank. It’s the latest sign of how finance is changing and just how hard it is for Goldman Sachs to be Goldman Sachs.
JPMorgan Chase C.E.O. Jamie Dimon.
William D. Cohan June 4, 2023
News and notes about the inside chatter percolating around the Core Club set.
Peter Orszag
William D. Cohan May 31, 2023
Is the new C.E.O. of Lazard actually in charge? Adventures in creative 8-K writing and organizational management at my favorite Wall Street bank.
All indications are that Bob Iger has decided to own the third of Hulu he doesn’t own and he has already started talking about combining Hulu with Disney+.
William D. Cohan May 28, 2023
News and notes from the Maidstone crowd and Burning Tree delegation.


james gorman
William D. Cohan May 24, 2023
I talk to a lot of well-wired people inside Morgan Stanley all the time: here’s what’s going to happen next. Plus notes on succession planning inside my old stomping grounds: Lazard and JPMC.
Peter Orszag will likely take the reins from Ken Jacobs as C.E.O. of Lazard.
William D. Cohan May 21, 2023
News and notes on the latest intrigue swirling around the Sconset set and Gin Lane weekend crowd: what’s next for Lazard, my old stomping grounds; Iger’s ESPN calculation; and late-breaking SVB lessons.
Steve Schwarzman
William D. Cohan May 17, 2023
Insights into a REIT headache, and some of the craftiest investors who are seeing around the corner.
William D. Cohan May 14, 2023
There’s no erasing his historic earlier tenure at Disney, but the company is looking increasingly vulnerable, especially since Iger’s last big deal will likely be the $9 billion he’d spend to buy Hulu.


Under the leadership of Ken Jacobs, who has been extremely well paid, Lazard has grown bigger and more robust. But its stock has underperformed badly.
William D. Cohan May 10, 2023
How Wall Street’s most mysterious, enigmatic, and flamboyant firm—“l’haute banque d’affaires vis-à-vis the world”—was brought down by fate and tragedy, and what it can do to become exceptional again.
It’s not clear what our friend Warren was thinking when he invested in what is now known as Paramount Global.
William D. Cohan May 7, 2023
News and notes on the rumblings inside Wall Street C-suites, the Sconset set, and the Gin Lane mafia: the Berkshire Hathaway-Paramount mystery, a Goldman curiosity, and the latest Icahn controversy.
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