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  • 28 Jan 2011 at 10:00 AM

‘Genius’ Derivatives Trader Busted For Not So Genius Tax Evasion Scam

By Bess Levin

Llewllyn Connolly, allegedly 44, is a Harvard Business School alum who’s spent the last couple decades working for Wall Street firms including Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and, most recently, Swiss Re, as a managing director. He and his wife, Fay Lin, live in an apartment on Bond Street, which some of you may recognize as a New York address. Problem was, Connolly didn’t feel like paying New York City taxes, so he came up with a not terribly inventive way to avoid doing so, which involved claiming he was single and living in London. Continue reading »

  • 17 Sep 2010 at 10:51 AM
  • MBAs

Degree From Harvard Business School Hot New Accessory For Budding Fashionistas

By Bess Levin

Time was, the MBA candidates at Harvard were by and large white boys of debatable attractiveness looking for a cushy gig at Goldman upon graduation. Those guys are still there. But know who else is too? Chicks! Good looking ones! Who don’t give a rat’s ass about working on Wall Street. What praytell are they doing at HBS? Looking to get a leg up in the fashion world. For example, former model Olga Vidisheva. This her story.

…the 25-year-old Russian model with piercing green eyes and a 24-inch waist, struts into class, her fellow students at Harvard Business School snap up from their laptops. The 5-foot-8 stunner, who loves labels like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, stands out in a sea of crew-cut, khaki-wearing nerds. After graduating from Wellesley in 2007, the beauty from Moscow logged two grueling years working at Goldman Sachs. “I really gave it a shot,” she sighs. Upon realizing that finance wasn’t for her, she enrolled at HBS for an unlikely reason—to get a leg up in the fashion world. She spent this past summer in a coveted internship with Chanel’s marketing department in New York and hopes to score a plum job in fashion after graduating in 2011.

And Olga’s not just some sort of freak accident. Apparently there are lots of Olga’s running around campus. Continue reading »

  • 30 Aug 2010 at 4:20 PM
  • MBAs

Have Women Pay To Worship Your Harvard Business School-Educated Ass

By Bess Levin

Are you looking for “love”? Did you attend HBS? Did you do so with the idea in mind that once you graduated, women would be so infatuated with the notion that your cock once took leadership and organizational behavior that you’d be beating them off with a stick? Have things not exactly panned out that way? Take heart! DateHarvardsq.com is here to help. The new dating site matches males who have Harvard MBAs with discerning females who do not. The best part, if you’re a cheap bastard and/or really taken by yourself, is that all the men have to do is sign up, free of charge, and the chicks have to pay for the honor of possibly dating you. Here’s a featured member: Continue reading »

  • 23 Apr 2009 at 9:03 AM

Vikram Pandit’s Biggest Mistake At Citi Was Taking The Job In The First Place

By Equity Private

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Just kidding, he claims! Count Vikula spoke at a “fireside chat” at Harvard Business School yesterday, and courtesy of a Dealbreaker reader in attendance, we’ve got some highlights. When asked about his biggest mistakes, he first offered the crowd-pleasing, “Taking this job and then staying in it,” to much laughter. Then he remembered he wasn’t doing a set at Caroline’s and responded that he had no “moment of catharsis” when he first arrived at the Big C, and should have communicated the trouble the bank was in faster and done more in a shorter period of time. Pandito apparently blamed the crisis on “global imbalances” and poor regulation of CDS and CDOs, and said that rebalancing and getting to a “stable platform for growth” will take “a long time” (he did not offer a timetable for getting Citi back to $55/share). On the matter of renovating his office to the tune of $10 million the jolly elfin fella characterized the situation as a “shit storm.”
And speaking of human waste– for students looking to get jobs on Wall Street, Vikula proffered the advice that they’re shit outta luck. (The actual exchange was a question by HBS professor Tom DeLong, who asked if VP had “any advice for students looking to get jobs in finance” and then, realizing the absurdity of the question, considering the dearth of positions on the Street, added “…or something,” to which Vikram responded with the suggestion they “go with the ‘or something’.”)