The Wall Street Journal has a little item on “A Corporate Beauty Contest,” a paper published earlier this year thanks to inquiring minds at Duke University and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Not only, it turns out, are the faces of chief executives perceived to be more competent than faces of non-chiefs, but Read More
Bear Stearns chairman James Cayne was in Detroit at the start of the weekend that saw the tanking of his venerable investment bank. Why? Mr. Cayne was competing in the North American Bridge Championship, according to reports.
Also last week, as the perfect storm gathered, Mr. Cayne closed on a $25 million condo Read More
James Cayne, the recently resigned chief (but still chairman) of Bear Stearns, has bought a $25.8 million condo at the Plaza, according to city records.
It’s been a rough year for Mr. Cayne, who left the embattled firm under a haze of recrimination following the collapse of two of its hedge funds that resulted in Read More
