Bruce Jay Wasserstein (December 25, 1947 – October 14, 2009) was an American investment banker and businessman. He was a graduate of the McBurney School, University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and spent a year at Cambridge University. He was the Chairman and CEO of Lazard Ltd.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris and Lola (née Schleifer) Wasserstein, Bruce Wasserstein was one of five siblings. His father, Morris...
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Bruce Jay Wasserstein (December 25, 1947 – October 14, 2009) was an American investment banker and businessman. He was a graduate of the McBurney School, University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and spent a year at Cambridge University. He was the Chairman and CEO of Lazard Ltd.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris and Lola (née Schleifer) Wasserstein, Bruce Wasserstein was one of five siblings. His father, Morris, a Jewish immigrant from pre-World War II Poland, emigrated to New York City and started a ribbon company. His maternal grandfather was Simon Schleifer, a Jewish teacher in the yeshiva in Wloclawek, Poland. Claims that Schleifer was a prominent playwright are most likely apocryphal, as this profession was only added to his résumé after Wendy Wasserstein, his sister, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Schleifer moved to Paterson, New Jersey and became a Hebrew school principal.
Wasserstein helped broker more than a thousand transactions worth ...
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