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

Technologization, xxvi, 8

Technology, 99

“Teflonic identity maneuvering,” 224

Telecommunications, 99

Tepper, David, 88

Tepper, Ray, 24

Tett, Gillian, 160

TGG, 140

Thain, John, 56, 85, 90, 182

Thatcher, Margaret, 16

Theron, Charlize, 115

Thiel, Peter, 121

Thiel Capital, 121

Think tanks, 105–106

Third Point, 109

Thought construct, 63

Thought leaders, 47–51

Thought leadership, 96

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, 220

Time, 65

Times of London, 136

Timken, William, 196

Tony Blair Associates, 170

Too Big to Fail, 172

“Toxic memo gate,” 187

Transactional capital, 168

Transactional relationships, 104

Transcendental meditation, 70

Transnational financial elite, 77–78

Transparency International, 17

“Transparency library,” 71

Travelholics, 134

Trichet, Jean-Claude, 118, 177–178

Trilateral Committee, 142

Troubled Asset Relief Program, 35, 153, 173

Trust, 13, 78–79, 98–99, 222–223

Tsinghua University, 103

Tucker, Paul, 43

Turner, Lord Adair, 27, 107, 215

Type A personality, 56

Tyson, Laura, 48

U

U2, 27

UBS, 42, 106, 179

UCLA, 30

U.K. Financial Services Authority, 107

Ukraine, 116

Unethical behavior, 224

United Nations, 27, 129

United Nations World Food Programme, 205

United States

billionaires in, 123

electrical blackout in, 20

income inequality in, 13, 210–211

life expectancy in, 211

treasury secretary of, 167, 186, 188

wealth accumulation in, 13

wealth gap in, 210–211

University of Chicago, 85

University of Toronto, 104

University of Warwick, 175

University of Zürich, 223

U.S. Federal Reserve, xxv, 84

U.S. Senate Banking Committee, 107

U.S. Treasury Department, 20, 30, 35, 45, 47

V

Value of Connections in Turbulent Times, The, 45

Vanguard, 179

Vanity Fair, 56, 160

Vekselberg, Viktor, 144

Venture capitalist industry, 149–150

Venture philanthropy, 76

Verifiable information, 40

Video conferences, 99

Violet & Daisy, 201

Vodafone Group, 142

Vogue, 160

Volcker, Paul, 107, 125–126

Volkswagen, 224

W

Wachovia, 140

Wage gap, 153–154

Wall Street

description of, 46, 165

excessive compensation on, 221

male-dominant nature of, 148

Washington and, relationship between, 176

Wall Street, 212, 221

Wall Street II, 24, 47

Wall Street Journal, 17, 67, 72, 158, 200

Wallerstein, Immanuel, 218–219

Warburg Pincus, 165

Warren, Elizabeth, 153, 225, 227

Warsh, Kevin, 36

Washington Post, 2, 91

Wauthier, Pierre, 138, 144

Wealth. See also Money

displays of, 60

exclusivity associated with, 77

family accumulation of, 123

global, 211

status affected by, 22

in tax havens, 211

Wealth gap

finance as reason for, 12

globalization effects on, 213

Institute for New Economic Thinking discussions about, 107

unethical behavior and, 222

in United States, 210–211

Weber, Axel, 42, 120

Weill, Sandy, 57, 65, 91, 140, 167, 203

Welch, Jack, 125, 135

Wellington, 44

Wells Fargo, 140

West, Cornel, 187

Weymouth, Lally, 2, 91

When the Genius Failed, 208

WHO. See World Health Organization

Wien, Byron, 27

Willful blindness, 223–224

Willful Blindness, 224

Wilson, Kendrik, 30

Winters, Bill, 140–141

Women

access gap for, 148–151

as

“buffer zones,” 151

as CEOs, 148, 154, 157

as hedge fund managers, 149

assessment gap for, 152–153

childbearing by, 157

failure gap in, 154

gender gap for, 147, 158–161

integration of, 226

mentoring gap for, 154–155

“mind-reading” by, 149

negotiation by, 153

networking gap for, 151, 161–162

“office housework” by, 152

old boys’ network exclusion of, 82, 150

on Wall Street, 148

performance-based assessments

of, 152

promotion of, 154

reasons for inclusion of, 148–149

resilience gap for, 156–158

sexism gap for, 155–156

sexual discrimination against, 155–156

sexual harassment against, 156

at Sitaras Fitness, 126

societal stereotype of, 153

“superhuman paradox” for, 157

in venture capitalist industry, 149–150

wage gap for, 153–154

Work hours, 134

Workalcoholics, 132, 134

Work-family life imbalance, 135–136, 157

Workouts, 125–126

World Bank, 27, 106, 185, 187

World Economic Forum

attendees of, 113–114

at Davos. See Davos

description of, xxiv, 1, 3, 25, 94, 112

dinners at, 115

Geneva headquarters of, 93–94

Global Risk Report, 212

hierarchy at, 114

Informal Gatherings of World Economic Leaders, 113

Klaus Schwab of, 94–96, 158

membership fees for, 113

mission of, 95

networking at, 113–114

parties of, 114–116

stakeholder principle application to, 95–96

status markers at, 114

succession plan at, 96

transparency of, 113

World Health Organization, 93

World War I, 37

World War II, 34

X

Xstrata, 171, 205

Y

Yale Club, 196

Yale Law School, 166

Yale University, 61, 82, 185

Yalta, 194

Yellen, Janet, 48, 64, 85, 188

Yilmaz, Durmuş, 119

Z

Zoellick, Robert, 84, 121

Zuckerberg, Mark, 198

Zuckerman, Mort, 192

Zunfthaus zur Meisen, 39

Zürich, 38–39

Zürich Insurance Group, 138, 144, 170