Robert F. Greenhill (born 1936) is an American businessman widely credited with helping create and pioneer the modern mergers and acquisitions advisory business on Wall Street.
[1][2] He is the founder and chairman of Greenhill & Co., an investment bank headquartered in New York City[1][3][4][5] which since its inception, has advised on transactions valued at close to $3 trillion and now operates in 17 offices globally across North and South America, Europe and the Middle East, and Asia and Australia.
[1][3] In 1972, he was appointed by Frank Petito, then Chairman of Morgan Stanley to create and direct the new mergers and acquisitions department, the first of its kind on Wall Street, during which time he was credited with pioneering the modern investment banking analyst program.
[1][3] From 1993 to 1996, he left Morgan Stanley to become the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Smith Barney, a subsidiary of the The Travelers Companies, and he served on the board of directors of the latter.
Currently the building provides administrative space for the HBS Global Initiative, which was launched in 1996 to deepen the School’s long-standing focus on international course development and research by facilitating closer ties with companies, academic institutions, and alumni worldwide.
The collection includes works by 103 artists, among them giants of photography, including Frank, Edward Steichen, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherma, William Eggleston, László Moholy-Nagy, André Kertesz, Charles Sheeler, Imogen Cunningham, In addition to masterworks by established figures, the Greenhills collected a wide variety of documentary and press photography, much of it unattributed.