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Join us for a conversation and reception at The University Club with Howard W. Buffett and Matthew Bishop on Social Value Investing.
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The Museum's annual "Great Crashes" walking tour will be held on Saturday, October 28, from 1-4 pm.
The 29th annual "Great Crashes" tour will explore Wall Street’s panics, crashes, scandals and revitalization.
From wringers, to luxury cars to beer, Peerless was a pioneer of reinvention.
Bloomberg's coverage of the Museum of American Finance's 2015 Gala honoring David Rubenstein.
New group aims to foster relationships formed in Museum's early years, while providing support for the Museum.
Join us for a 90-minute historical walking tour of FiDi (the Financial District) with an emphasis on Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and other moguls.
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Join us for the next event in our Henry Kaufman Lecture/Symposia Series with William Donaldson, who has served at the highest levels of business, government and academia for more than 40 years.
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Help relive the Great Crash of 1929 on its 81st anniversary. The Museum's annual guided walking tour of Lower Manhattan will be held on Saturday, October 30, at 1 pm.
William H. Donaldson has been selected to receive the Museum of American Finance’s 2010 John C. Whitehead Award for Distinguished Public Service and Financial Leadership.
The Museum will offer monthly finance-themed walking tours of the Financial District beginning in October.
New York – Help relive the Great Crash of 1929 on the 20th annual guided walking tour of Lower Manhattan sponsored by the Museum of American Finance on Saturday, October 25th at 1:00 pm. This unique tour, which is the only regularly scheduled event that commemorates the Great Crash of 1929, the Panic of 1907 and the 1987 stock market collapse, as well as delves into the political, financial, real estate and architectural history of Wall Street and New York City.
Now that the fossil record clearly shows that some dinosaurs evolved into birds, it should not be such a surprise that almost all of the first 12 companies on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) are still around. Their names reek of turn-of-the-century incipient industrialism: Tennessee Coal & Iron, American Cotton Oil, Distilling & Cattle Feeding. But well into the Information Age, only one on the debut list of May 26, 1896 is entirely gone. The U.S. Leather trust, the only preferred issue of the first Dow Dozen, was dropped in 1905. The trust was dissolved in 1911, and hardly a trace of the company or the industry remains in this country.
This exhibit illuminated the life and career of John D. Rockefeller and examined the origins and rise of the Standard Oil Company; the man, as a practical innovator in business management, and the company as a forerunner of the modern American corporation.
The Museum of American Finance Communications Executives Advisory Panel brings together the communications and marketing leaders from America’s top financial institutions and serves as a forum to collaborate with the Museum as it pursues closer ties with, and opportunities to add greater value to, the Wall Street community. It is co-chaired by David Cowen, president/CEO of the Museum of American Finance, and Dan Simon, CEO of Wall Street communications firm, Vested.
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