L'incroyable parcours d'un jeune Libanais devenu un grand banquier international.Qui était Edmond J. Safra ? " Le plus grand banquier de sa génération ", selon un ancien président de la Banque mondiale. Un philanthrope aussi, et une figure emblématique de la communauté juive séfarade.Daniel Gross, qui a eu accès à une mine d'archives privées, retrace au fil des pages l'histoire de la vie d'Edmond J. Safra, du Beyrouth de son enfance jusqu'au sommet d'un empire financier.

Quem foi Edmond J. Safra? Nesta biografia sobre o criador de um império financeiro mundial, Daniel Gross conta a história de um dos mais influentes e bem-sucedidos banqueiros do século XX.Edmond J. Safra foi "o maior banqueiro de sua geração", na avaliação de James Wolfensohn, ex-presidente do Banco Mundial. Nascido no bairro judeu de Beirute, descendente de uma das mais antigas comunidades judaicas do mundo, foi naturalizado cidadão do Brasil e, mais tarde, de Mônaco. Na construçã...

Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora. In A Banker's Journey, financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, t...

An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or even impossible. We imagine a different world, too, but billionaires are doing their best to make things worse.In Unions of Our Own, veteran labor organizer and cofounder of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union Daniel Gross provides a radically new, step-by-ste...

Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the United States—have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding America’s economic prospects. Bloated with debt, and outpaced by China and other emerging markets, the United States has been left for dead as an economic force. But in this time of grim predictions, Daniel Gross, Yahoo! financial columnist and author of Dumb Money, offers a refreshingl...

In A Banker's Journey, financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Edmond Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York—to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. ...

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial institutions -- and that's only the beginning. The financial services industry, and the many industries that depend on it -- from housing to cars -- is ...

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial institutions -- and that's only the beginning. The financial services industry, and the many industries that depend on it -- from housing to cars -- is ...

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The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?Obsessed with these questions, renowned economist Tyler Cowen and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross set out to ...

Come si trovano i talenti dotati di scintilla creativa? Fino a che punto è possibile prevedere la creatività umana? O forse questa caratteristica è qualcosa di irriducibile a fattori precisi che si manifestano davanti ai nostri occhi, qualcosa che può essere individuato o intravisto solo con l’intuizione, qualcosa di unico ogni volta che appare? Ossessionati da queste domande, il famoso economista Tyler Cowen e l’imprenditore e venture capitalist Daniel Gross si sono messi a studiare l’art...