The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund (Signed)

Raghavan, Anita

ISBN 10: 1455504025 / ISBN 13: 9781455504022

Published by Business Plus, New York, NY, USA, 2013

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xvi, 494pp, [8pp] of black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards; white titles on spine. Signed by the author on the half-title. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine heel, lightly rubbed and rounded lower corners. Text block edges just starting to fox (occasionally affecting page margins) and moderately tanned. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket extremities have shelf wear, two bookseller's stickers,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund (Signed)
• Publisher: Business Plus, New York, NY, USA
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1455504025
• ISBN 13: 9781455504022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business, Management, Human Resources and Emplo...
  • Signed Books

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Synopsis

A revealing history of Indian-Americans' rise through the ranks in business, from immigrants to powerbrokers.

The collapse of the Galleon Group—a hedge fund that managed more than seven billion dollars in assets—from criminal charges of insider trading was a sensational case that pitted prosecutor Preet Bharara, himself the son of Indian immigrants, against the best and brightest of the South Asian business community. At the center of the case was self-described King of Kings, Galleon's founder Raj Rajaratnam, a Sri-Lankan-born, Wharton-educated billionaire.

But the most shocking allegation was that the éminence grise of Indian business, Rajat Gupta, was Rajaratnam's accomplice and mole. If not for Gupta's nose-to-the-grindstone rise to head up McKinsey & Co and a position on the Goldman Sachs board, men like Rajaratnam would have never made it to the top of America's moneyed elite.

Author Anita Raghavan criss-crosses the globe from Wall Street boardrooms to Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology as she uncovers the secrets of this subculture—an incredible tale of triumph, temptation and tragedy.

About the Author

Anita Raghavan was born in Malaysia but came to the United States in 1970. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she spent eighteen years at the Wall Street Journal where she won the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the mergers and acquisition boom in Europe, and the New York Press Club award for her reporting on the the near death of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital. In 2008, she became the London Bureau Chief for Forbes. Currently she is a contributor to New York Times Dealbook and Forbes.