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My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

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It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn’t get all the financing it needs.

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April 25, 2024

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn’t get all the financing it needs.

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April 25, 2024

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

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