Sorry, the excitement is getting to me.
I spent Thursday in Washington listening to members of the Bush administration explain themselves to the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum (a club to which I, absurdly enough, belong). The deal was that most of the chats were off the record. I’d feel worse about adhering to that agreement if anything truly [...]
My column in the current Time is about Realogy CEO Henry Silverman’s return to the private equity world he left almost 15 years ago (he was a partner at Blackstone, and before that at Saul Steinberg’s Reliance Group Holdings). It took most of the space I had just to explain who Silverman is and why [...]
My new column is about the latest twist in the remarkable career of Realogy CEO Henry Silverman. It begins: On the morning of April 19, the private-equity firm Apollo Management acquired Realogy–the company behind real estate brokerages Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and ERA. It was not, by modern standards, a huge transaction: the sale price [...]
