Appendix G
Goldman Timeline of Selected Events
Following is a timeline summarizing selected key events for Goldman and its industry. Although the timeline covers events starting in 1869, the book starts its analysis from 1979, when the business principles were codified. The timeline goes through most of 2012. In order to help demonstrate that pressures started impacting the firm before its IPO in 1999 and before Blankfein took over as CEO, the events are categorized in terms of the analytical framework used for the analysis in the book.1
As discussed in appendix B, the framework categorizes four main pressures (or responses to those pressures) that impact an organization: organizational (O), regulatory (R), technological (T), and competitive ...
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