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• The Banker Who Saved Wall Street

  …asking him if he had a moment to speak to Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz . As Dimon walked outside to the sidewalk, Schwartz cut ……within hours, it'd been cut in half. By that evening, CEO Alan Schwartz was in a car on the way to his home in Greenwich, Conn …

  09/11/2009Business
• Remember Bear Stearns?

  …Greenberg was extremely cavalier about it. Jimmy Cayne wasn't quite as cavalier, but he was matter-of-fact about it. Alan Schwartz , who served as CEO briefly in Bear's final months, seems to me to have taken it a lot harder. I'm glad somebody is …

  By Daniel Gross

  04/02/2009Tech and Business
• A Tale That’s Absolutely Unbearable

  …borrowed cash. THE EVIDENCE: When the run on Bear began, board chairman Jimmy Cayne was playing bridge in Detroit and CEO Alan Schwartz was in Palm Beach. Cohan argues that neither fully grasped the firm's toxic debt, and the one guy who did, Warren Spector …

  By Matthew Philips

  03/14/2009Scope
• Today’s ‘Culture of Poverty’

  …consequences." Critics point to a pervasive sense of victimhood in the underclass. But listen to what Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz told the troops after his firm succumbed to wounds that were almost entirely self-inflicted. "We here are a collective …

  By Daniel Gross

  04/07/2008Tech and Business
• How a Lack of Faith Pounded the Markets

  …melting down, Bear's septuagenarian CEO, James Cayne, was at a bridge tournament in Nashville. On Wednesday, March 12, Alan Schwartz , who had succeeded Cayne in January, reassured CNBC viewers that Bear Stearns had no problems and projected it would turn a profit …

  By Daniel Gross

  03/31/2008Business

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