Sandra Navidi - SuperHubs - How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule our World

Altman, Roger, 121

Alumni networks, 81

Al-Waleed, Prince of Saudi Arabia, 205

Amazon, 199

Amygdala, 98

“Analysis paralysis,” 51

Analytical thinking, 218

Anarchy, 213

Andreessen Horowitz, 189

Anger, 57

Annan, Kofi, 27

Ant colonies, 6

“Anthropocene,” xxvii

Apollo Global Management, 88

Appaloosa Management, 88

Arab Spring, 226

Arabella Sheraton Hotel Seehof, 115

Arbitrage traders, 166, 208

Arcadia Conference, 34

Archbishop of Westminster, 226

Aristotle, 79

Arrow, Kenneth, 185

“Ask gap,” 153

Aspen Institute, 112, 200

Assess the Value of Your Networks, 41

Assessment gap, 152–153

“Assortative mating,” 80

Athleticism, 126

Atlantic Council, 158

Avenue Capital Group, 90

AXA, 179

Axel Springer, 136

Azerbaijan, 171

B

Babacan, Ali, 120

Bacall, Lauren, 199

Bacon, Louis, 109

Bailouts, 10–11, 216

Bair, Sheila, 56, 150, 168, 172–173, 176, 214

Baker & McKenzie, 154, 159

Banamex Bank, 167

Banco Santander, 121, 148

Bank(s)

bailouts of, 10–11, 216

central, xxv, 6, 10, 32–33, 37

CEOs of, 38, 87–88, 174

commercial, 37

description of, xxv investment, 38

postcrisis regulation of, 218

private, 37

private equity firms and, 61

regular, 37

savings, 37

shadow, 38

“too big to fail,” 216

Bank Credit-Dnepr, 195

Bank for International Settlements, 37, 78, 214

Bank of America, 115, 151, 183

Bank of Cyprus, 144–145

Bank of England, xxv, 32, 43, 57, 84, 106, 165, 214–215, 222

Bank of Israel, 36, 84

Bank of New York, 196

Bank One, 65

Banking Conduct and Culture, 223

Banque de France, 39

Barabasi, Albert-László, 19

Barak, Ehud, 9

Barclays, 43, 137, 179, 183, 205

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, 37

BASF, 115

Bass, Kyle, 154

Baur au Lac Hotel, 38

Bear Stearns, 41, 56–57, 198

Beaux-Arts style, 34

Behavior of networks, 20

Beijing, 103, 194

“Believability index,” 72

“Believability matrices,” 71

Belvédère Hotel, 3, 9, 29

Berkeley Hotel, 43

Berkshire Hathaway, 60

Berlusconi, Silvio, 177–178

Bernanke, Ben

annual salary of, 165

as Federal Reserve chairman, 34–37, 188

background on, 36

at Bilderberg conference, 121

in Euro crisis, 177–178

in financial crisis of 2007–2008 management, 11, 36–37, 84, 172

Medley Global Advisors leak and, 43

power of, 35

Princeton University graduation speech by, 50, 80

successor to, 188

Bernstein, Leonard, 199

Beverly Hills Hotel, 192

Bieber, Justin, 67

“Big data analysis” programs, 72

Bild, 136

Bilderberg conference, 120–122

Bilderberg Group, 96, 112

Bilderberg Steering Committee, 142

Billionaires, 123

BIS. See Bank for International Settlements

Bishop, Matthew, 128

Black, Leon, 190

at Milken Institute conference, 192

net worth of, 88, 123

parties attended by, 92, 129

residence of, 91

Black, Steve, 140

Blackouts, 20

BlackRock, xxv, 29–31, 43–44, 53, 64, 106, 121

Blackstone Group, xxvii, 27, 30, 53, 60–61, 79, 88, 109, 203

Blair, Tony, 9, 170–172, 192, 205

Blankfein, Lloyd

AIG and, 183

Barack Obama and, 174

Ben Bernanke and, 36

at Bilderberg conference, 121

media scrutiny of, 136

net worth of, 88

parties attended by, 92

residence of, 91

Robin Hood Foundation and, 76

Blige, Mary J., 115

Bloomberg, Michael, 75

Bloomberg Tower, 125

Bodmer mansion, 122

Bolten, Joshua, 85

Bolton, Tamiko, 27

Bonino, Emma, 27

Bono, 27

Borio, Claudio, 214

Botin, Ana, 121, 148

Boulud, Daniel, 205

Brain, 6

Branson, Richard, 115

Bretton Woods Committee, 106

Bretton Woods Conference, 38, 106

Breuer, Rolf, 143

Brevan Howard, 43

Brexit, 213–214, 218

Bridgewater Associates, xxvii, 63, 70–71, 88

Brin, Sergey, 114

Brookings Institution, 105, 168–169

Brosens, Frank, 170

Brown, Gordon, 107, 205

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 212

Budapest Festival Orchestra, 27

Buffett, Warren, 225

Barack Obama and, 174

Berkshire reputation and, 40, 59–60

family and, 135, 137

“Giving Pledge” participation by, 70, 128

Buiter, Willem, 45

Bull by the Horns, 56, 176

Bundesbank, 32, 37, 42, 120, 223

Burda DLA Nightcap, 115

Burnout, 137

Bush, George H. W., 16

Bush, George W., 24, 61, 84–85, 173, 183

Business schools, 81

“Butterfly effect,” 219

Buying of influence, 176

C

Calello, Paul, 138

Calgene, 201

Callan, Erin, 157–158

Camdessus, Michel, 39

Cantor Fitzgerald, 76

Capital

human, 26, 80

network, 189

political, 169

relational, 97

social. See Social capital

transactional, 168

Capitalism, 209–213, 219, 221

Caramoor Estate, 27

“Carlton affair,” 194–195

Carlyle Bank, 105

Carney, Mark, 39, 43, 57, 222

Cass, Stephen, 201

Catalonia, 212

“Catch me if you can” culture, 223

Cayman Islands, 211

Cayne, James, 56

Central bank(s), xxv, 6, 10, 32–33, 37

Central Bank of Canada, 57

Central Bank of Italy, 177

Central bankers

conflicts of interest, 42

description of, 33

financiers and, 43

proximity to, 42

Central Park, 90, 199

Centre for Economic Policy Research, 43

Centre for Financial Analysis, 43

CEOs. See also Executives; specific CEO

as brand masters, 59

as role models, 224

of banks, 38, 87–88, 174

compensation of, 85–87

coups d’état of, 139–141

divorce effects on, 135

egos of, 65–69

of financial institutions, 86, 174

innovation by, 51

ousting of, 139

pay packages for, 87–88

private equity, 88

renumeration of, 87–88

risk taking by, 66

salaries of, 87–88, 211

social responsibility by, 226

succession of, 141

women as, 148, 154, 157

CERN. See European Organization for Nuclear Research

Change, 227

Chaos, 213

Character, 22, 224

Charisma, 102

Charity events, 128–129

Charm, 102

Chatham House Rule, 39, 121

Children, 135–137

China, 103, 171–172

Chopra, Deepak, 71

Chu, Victor, 115

Churchill, Winston, 34, 219

CIA, 226

Çirağan Cad, 141 Çirağan Palace, 119

CIT Group, 90

Citadel, 42, 76, 87, 121

Citi Wealth Management, 150

Citigroup, 23, 45, 56–57, 65, 84, 88, 131, 139–140, 150, 165, 167–169, 204

Clarida, Richard, 44

“Class traitors,” 212

Cleary Gottlieb, 166

Clinton, Bill, 24, 84, 164, 166

Clinton, Hillary, 164, 174

Clinton administration, 165, 186

Clinton Global Initiative, 27, 129, 164

Club of Rome, 220

CNBC, 29, 115

Coeuré, Benoît, 43–44

Cognitive ability, 62, 81

Cognitive biases in human thinking, 50

Cognitive capture, 163–164, 217–218

Cohen, Steven, 24, 59, 86, 88, 123, 192

Cohn, Gary, 52

Collective thought, 50

Cologny, 93

Columbia University, 107

Commercial banks, 37

Commerzbank, 120

Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, 37

Committee on the Global Financial System, 37

Common good, 225

Communication

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