TY - BOOK AU - Charles D Ellis AU - ELLIS (Charles D) TI - Partnership: A history of Goldman Sachs SN - 9781846141027 U1 - 332.660973 23 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Penguin books Ltd KW - Partnership N2 - The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis, who worked as a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than thirty years, reveals the secrets behind the firm?s continued success through many life-threatening changes. Disgraced and nearly destroyed in 1929, Goldman Sachs limped along as a break-even operation through the Depression and WWII. But with only one special service and one improbable banker, it began the stage-by-stage rise that took the firm to global leadership, even in the face of the world-wide credit crisis ER -