Lewis L. Glucksman (December 22, 1925 – July 5, 2006) was a former Lehman Brothers trader and former chief executive officer and chairman of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. Glucksman was born into a second generation Hungarian Jewish family that lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.
[1] Glucksman graduated from the College of William and Mary and later earned a Master's degree in business administration from New York University.
After rising from head of sales and trading at Lehman to co-CEO, Glucksman, described then as "gruff and tough" beat Pete Peterson, a former United States Secretary of Commerce for control of the then-closely held firm in 1983, a battle documented in the 1986 book Greed and Glory on Wall Street by Ken Auletta.
He travelled to Ireland frequently in his role as a trustee of New York University to promote academic relationships between Irish academia and NYU.
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