Hello: I am working with a group of lawyers organized by the Bar Association of the City of New York to help identify emergency funding sources for small businesses affected by the World Trade Center attack. The idea is to help them secure short term loans and/or grants so that they can stay in business during this difficult period. I am able to investigate the various sources of government funding (SBA, FEMA) but need your help with finding sources of private money such as foundations, corporate funds, the September 11th Fund (?). My goal is to compile a list of available resources for use during counseling sessions with business owners. There are teams of other lawyers from various firms who have agreed to represent small business owners, on a pro bono basis, in their effort to complete paperwork and deal with a staggering array of other legal matters including insurance, tax, real estate, employment and immigration issues. You all share the dubious distinction of being in my rolodex and being perceived (by me at least) as having the right kind of contacts to help me find people and organizations to call. My thought is that you or your colleagues and friends may be affiliated with a foundation, firm or corporation that has somehow raised money or made money available for this purpose. Feel free to call me with information at 646-428-1814 or email me. Also feel free to pass this message on to any others who could help. Thanks, Bill McGovern.
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I want to take a moment to thank each of you for having a summer Analyst or Associate work on your team. I also want to remind everyone what a high stakes activity this is for Enron. Based on your recommendation, we will make offers at the end of the summer to those interns who perform, and who you endorse as a potential future member of your team. Those interns who have had a good experience and accept our offer will be the lowest risk hires we make - from any source. We will have effectively interviewed and watched them work for 2-3 months. They also have the potential to be the most effective advocates and talent scouts we have, when they return to campus. On the flip side, those who don't have meaningful assignments, or have bad experiences during the summer can severely hurt our efforts. Thank you again for being part of this very important activity. If you have any questions, or if areas of concern arise during the summer, please contact Ted Bland (x35275), Traci Warner (x33242) or me (x36671).
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answer: Analyst & Associate Program - Summer Interns
I have listed a few pertinent facts about Jeff for your upcoming meeting. Let me know if you need more information. 1. Jeff joined ENA Legal on September 1, 1993. His title is currently Assistant General Counsel. 2. Jeff leads a group in the legal department that focuses on physical trading. Jeff spends most of his time on structured deals like Brooklyn Union and physical gas trading. He also has lead the legal team on acquisition deals such as Columbia Energy Services. He has a strong work ethic and an excellent record in closing important transactions. 3. He has good legal judgment and is described by his clients as a knowledgeable and practical trading lawyer. 4. Jeff has consistently ranked "excellent" in the performance review process.
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answer: Jeff Hodge's Election to Vice President
Dear Vince: I hope you have liked the short paper on decision making I sent you a week ago. It emphasizes the human nature of the process of decision making. I personally believe that this line of reasoning is systematically neglected by the investment and trading communities. I think that many of the great traders and investors are very well aware of these limitations of human mind and are making efforts to utilize them. For example you may encounter similar ideas in the George Soros' book "The Alchemy of Finance". I am certain that developing and expertise in this area bears a tremendous potential for improving Enron's trading operations and will give us an edge with respect to other trading powerhouses. Do you think there are desks at Enron that may be interested in developing a system of procedures that leads to improving our trading performance? I will be extremely interested in working in this field. By the way I have already gathered many of the basic pieces of information needed for such an undertaking. As a beginning I may make an overview of the literature available on decision biases and list as many of them as possible. Indeed, the mind traps mentioned in the paper are not the only ones. Later we may discuss with our clients possibilities for quantifying the influence of a selected group of these biases on the performance of our traders. Still later, a set of questionnaries, a system for keeping trader's perceptions prior to every act of decion making, and the result of the decision will be created, etc. I envision the final product to be a self-educating trading system learning from every single experience, both positive and negative and utilizing the history of the decision maker to her best benefit. After some transition period, the result should be a more enlightened process of decision making of our traders, stripped as much as possible from the common psychological biases and utilizing human judgment--the very thing which differentiates the good trader from the computer (or the bad trader, for that matter).
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Decision making opportunities