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摘要

IN THE SPRING OF 2002, when I was this magazine's Wall Street editor, I went along with a Fortune staff writer to see Sallie Krawcheck. Kraw-check, then all of 37 years old, was chairman and chief executive officer of Sanford C. Bernstein, a prestigious institutional money management firm known for its no-nonsense equity research. At a time when "research" at the big Wall Street houses was too often suspect-compromised by the desire to please the firms' lucrative investment banking clients-the dense, sparsely illustrated Bernstein reports had a reputation for fierce independence, if not purity.