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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs17 min
What’s Behind the Record-Breaking IPO Market
Elizabeth Reed, Allison Nathan, Lizzie Reed
As of September 2021, global equity issuance volumes have surged nearly 39% year-over-year to exceed $1 trillion, with a robust pipeline driven by the "Goldilocks" market environment and diversified buy-side capital. Goldman Sachs anticipates this momentum to accelerate through Q4, noting healthy absorption capacity for IPOs, direct listings, and evolving SPAC vehicles despite regulatory headwinds that have corrected earlier speculative excesses. While investors monitor macro risks such as Federal Reserve tapering and high growth valuations, the firm maintains confidence in the market's ability to absorb record supply due to strong issuer quality and active retail participation.
- Goldman Sachs30 min
Steve Buscemi, Actor, Director and Former NYC Firefighter
Former FDNY firefighter Steve Buscemi transitioned to acting after serving from 1980 to 1984 and later returned to the World Trade Center site in 2001 to assist with recovery efforts. Since then, he has channeled his experiences into advocacy, co-producing documentaries like *Firehouse* and *Dust* to highlight the psychological trauma and 9/11-related cancers affecting first responders and their families. Buscemi currently partners with the "Friends of Firefighters" organization to provide mental health services while continuing his acting career through roles that authentically portray the firehouse community.
- Goldman Sachs21 min
Outlook for Global Growth: Less Synchronized, More Complicated
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a November 2021 announcement for asset purchase tapering while Goldman Sachs lowered its 2021 U.S. GDP growth forecast to 6% amid rising virus cases and global supply chain disruptions. Despite revising core PCE inflation expectations upward to 3.75% for the current year, the central bank anticipates the spike will remain temporary and defer rate hikes until potentially mid-2023. This cautious stance aims to balance the risk of new viral variants and the expiration of unemployment benefits, which together are expected to drive approximately 1.5 million additional jobs by late 2021.
- Goldman Sachs36 min
Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA
Siemens U.S. President Barbara Humpton outlines a strategic pivot toward "glocal" manufacturing that prioritizes regional supply chain resilience and digital transformation over traditional labor arbitrage. Her leadership focuses on rebuilding anti-fragile operations through strategic digital twins, aggressive workforce development in STEM, and navigating complex geopolitical dynamics between the U.S. and China. These initiatives aim to address semiconductor shortages, modernize infrastructure, and diversify leadership while maintaining a dual-market presence.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
Thomas Dyja, author of "New York, New York, New York"
Thomas Deidja's *New York, New York* chronicles the shift in municipal governance from the fiscal chaos of the Beame era to the data-driven command structures of the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations. The text details how technological mandates replaced manual record-keeping to solve crime and management crises while critiquing specific policy failures regarding the AIDS crisis and racial disparities under Koch and Dinkins. Ultimately, the work argues that the pandemic disrupts this historical model of urban vitality by eliminating the face-to-face interactions that previously allowed the city to rely on density to solve social problems.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Gary Ginsberg, author of "First Friends"
In his book *First Friends*, author Gary Ginsberg examines the transformative influence of the close personal bonds between nine U.S. presidents and their confidants, ranging from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to Richard Nixon and B.B. Rebozo. By leveraging extensive historical research and interviews, Ginsberg illustrates how these specific relationships enabled critical outcomes such as the drafting of the Constitution, the preservation of the Union during the Civil War, and strategic decisions made during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The narrative further details how these "first friends" occasionally acted as moral anchors or financial enablers, ultimately shaping presidential legacies and influencing major historical events through their unique, unmediated access to power.
- Goldman Sachs27 min
How Are Investors Navigating China’s Regulatory Uncertainty?
Stephanie Hui, Basak Yavuz, Prakriti Sofat, Alison Nathan
Amidst rapid regulatory shifts in China's ed-tech, cybersecurity, and antitrust sectors, Goldman Sachs advocates a neutral to overweight stance on Chinese equities while targeting decarbonization and self-sufficiency themes. Private market investors are reorienting capital toward sustainable business models and ESG-aligned "S" factors, viewing recent valuation corrections as a strategic opportunity rather than a fundamental departure. Although volatility has pressured specific property and technology segments, the broader consensus points to a structural realignment favoring companies demonstrating societal benefit and long-term resilience.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Nicolas Hamilton, Racing Driver
Nicolas Hamilton, Kene Ejikeme, Kanae Jukame
Nicholas Hamilton, born with cerebral palsy and trained exclusively on a £20 button-based simulator, overcame physical limitations to win the 2009 British Championship and subsequently secure a spot in the professional British Touring Car Championship. After two years of securing his own sponsorship by acting as his own marketing director, he became the first disabled driver to score BTCC points since 2015 and currently holds the distinction of being the most followed driver in the touring car paddock. His career, defined by a "90% mental, 10% physical" philosophy, serves as a high-visibility platform to inspire others to pursue unique routes despite external constraints.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
The Delta Variant: Implications for Vaccines, Booster Shots and Economic Growth
Terence Flynn, Daan Struyven, Allison Nathan
Global discussions on the Delta variant highlight its heightened transmissibility and the robust protection of mRNA vaccines against severe disease, even as efficacy against mild symptomatic infection varies by region. Industry strategies are shifting toward booster programs for high-risk populations and the development of multivalent vaccines to address waning immunity and emerging threats. Concurrently, economic forecasts have been revised downward due to persistent case spikes in specific regions, supply chain bottlenecks, and consumer risk aversion slowing recovery in the United States and Asia-Pacific.
- Goldman Sachs23 min
M&A Outlook: How Companies Are Positioning For Growth
Mark Sorrell, Stephan Feldgoise, Alison Nathan
M&A activity has surged to early 2021 levels driven by a strategic shift toward "big, bold" transactions as companies prioritize offensive growth and defensive supply chain diversification amid record private equity capital. The market is characterized by a high volume of deals between $500 million and $10 billion, with increasing participation from sovereign funds and a notable resurgence in activist investing focused on ESG and corporate restructuring. Despite muted cross-border activity due to travel constraints, the consensus among practitioners, including Goldman Sachs, points to sustained momentum in the second half of 2021 fueled by abundant deployable capital and adaptive deal execution.
- Goldman Sachs23 min
Jane Goodall, Ethologist and Conservationist
Since 1960, Dame Dr. Jane Goodall has pioneered chimpanzee research at Gombe Stream National Park by documenting individual personalities and tool use, fundamentally challenging the scientific definition of humans as the sole "Tool Maker." Transitioning from field scientist to global activist in 1986, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute to address habitat loss through community-focused initiatives like the Takukari program and the youth-led Roots & Shoots project. Today, Goodall continues to advocate for forest conservation and ocean protection while ensuring the organization's legacy through a dedicated endowment, bridging decades of ecological data with immediate action against human-driven destruction.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
Bill Bynum, CEO of HOPE
Bill Bynum and HOPE Credit Union are reshaping economic strategy by reframing diverse populations as an emerging majority and deploying a financial ecosystem to dismantle historical barriers rooted in the legacy of slavery and predatory lending. Through targeted interventions like the Million Black Women Initiative and community-led revitalization in Mississippi, the organization has successfully expanded access to capital during crises while proving that small business ownership can significantly narrow the racial wealth gap. By operating as an R&D laboratory for policy and providing essential financial education, HOPE is systematically addressing the determinants of economic mobility to foster sustainable development in underserved regions.
- Goldman Sachs27 min
Where Are Family Offices Seeking Higher Returns?
Allison Nathan, Sarah Nason-Tarahano, Mina Flynn, Tony Pasquarello, Ken Hirsch
Leading family offices are evolving into nimble, multi-disciplinary institutions that balance wealth preservation with mission-driven investment strategies, allocating significant capital to alternatives and real estate to hedge against inflation and currency debasement. Driven by long-term horizons and lean governance structures, these entities increasingly deploy flexible capital for direct deals while integrating emerging themes like ESG and digital assets to capture outsized returns. Their unique ability to navigate market volatility with 100% deal certainty and a focus on generational growth positions them as a distinct and influential force in global capital markets.
- Goldman Sachs27 min
The Future of ‘Femtech’
Ann Roberts, Lea von Bidder, Dr. Peter Kecskemethy, Antonia Riera, Allison Nathan, Leah Von Bitter
Flow Health CEO Anne Roberts, Ava co-founder Leah Von Bitter, and Chiron Medical founder Peter Ketch-Kometi led a strategic discussion on defining the Femtech sector through evidence-based science and rigorous regulation rather than consumer tech labels. The panelists detailed how their respective companies are leveraging machine learning and wearable physiology data to achieve massive scale, with Flow Health reporting 107% revenue growth and Ava successfully pivoting its algorithms for early COVID detection. While acknowledging the sector's unique capital challenges compared to fintech, the founders outlined future roadmaps focused on expanding product portfolios into menopause and contraception while pushing for AI-driven regulatory frameworks to enable broader clinical adoption.
- Goldman Sachs16 min
Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder and CEO of Databricks
Databricks CEO Ali Ghadzi outlines a strategy for enterprises to leverage data and AI as the "early first inning" of industry disruption, guided by a leadership philosophy rooted in empathy and a corporate culture of customer obsession. The company employs a self-cannibalization innovation model that open-sources core technologies like Spark and MLflow to drive adoption while monetizing secure, high-performance SaaS services that reduce total cost of ownership by up to 100x. Ghadzi advises organizations to immediately build foundational data infrastructure on the cloud and rely on open-source standards to avoid vendor lock-in, ensuring they can fully capitalize on the inevitable integration of AI into all software.