Dick Fuld
Wall Street Bulldog
Richard Fuld is the type of CEO who has a squash court at home and plays the demanding sport whenever he has a spare moment. He also makes a list of what he has to do every morning and tries not to leave the office until every item is checked off. That helps explain how Lehman Brothers has been able to morph from a struggling bond house into one of the most agile and aggressive investment banks on Wall Street.
Fuld, 60, has steered Lehman through countless shoals since he became CEO in 1993, including leading an evacuation of its headquarters near the World Trade Center on September 11. Since then, Lehman's stock price has outpaced most of its rivals', soaring more than 100%. Fuld is anything but a remote leader: "If I need Dick Fuld on something, I can usually get him in five minutes," says one staffer.
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