Wall Street’s young guns

Wall Street’s young guns Blackstone has a rep for growing young talent. Steve Schwarzman’s strategy: managing overachievers How Blackstone grooms talent Plenty of young guns work away at the big banks, but the Blackstone Group gives autonomy and power to its rising stars to such a degree that it has garnered a reputation as one […]

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‘Balloon boy’ dad to media: Put questions in box

The man whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky this week, amid fears that his 6-year-old was aboard, emerged from his house Saturday and offered a cardboard box for the media to submit questions. “I got people e-mailing me, calling me; they’ve got a lot of questions, and I don’t know how to quite frankly answer any of them other than I’ve got a box,” Richard Heene said about 10 a.m.

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