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词条 Robert A. Bernhard
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  1. Life and career

     Cooper Union 

  2. Personal life

  3. References

{{Infobox person
| birthname = Robert Arthur Bernhard
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1928}}
| birth_place = New York City
| education = Williams College (BA/BS)
Harvard University (MBA)
| employer =
| title = Former Partner of Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers
| salary =
| networth =
| nationality = United States
| predecessor =
| successor =
| boards = Montefiore Medical Center, Congregation Emanu-El of New York, Lincoln Center Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Union
| ethnicity =
| parents = Richard Jaques Bernhard
Dorothy Lehman Bernhard
| spouse = Frances Wells
Joan Mack Sommerfield
| partner =
| children = 4
| family = Adele Lewisohn Lehman (grandmother)
}}Robert Arthur Bernhard (born 1928)[1] is an American banker best known as the last Lehman Brothers descendant to serve as partner of the firm.[1]

Life and career

Bernhard was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Richard Jaques Bernhard and Dorothy Lehman Bernhard.[2] He graduated from Williams College in 1951 and the Harvard School of Business in 1953.[4]

Bernhard joined Lehman Brothers in 1953, and became General Partner in 1962. At Lehman Brothers, Bernhard was Head of Investment Management Division and served on the Boards of the Lehman Corporation and the One William Street Fund.[4] Bernhard left Lehman Brothers in 1972, becoming a partner at Salomon Brothers in 1974 until its merger with Phibro in 1981.[3]

In 1981, he opened his own firm, Bernhard & Associates.[4] In 1990 it merged with Orson Munn & Company to create Munn, Bernhard & Associates (MB Investment Partners). In 1997 he became a partner of McFarland Dewey & Company.[5][6]

Bernhard is a Life Trustee of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, New York City, after having previously served as its President.[7][6] He also serves on the boards of the Montefiore Medical Center and its Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a Trustee of the Lincoln Center Institute.[6] He was a Director of Medscape LLC and, from 1993 to 2011, of Stone Energy Corporation.[6]

Cooper Union

Bernhard was chairman of the board of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art from 1995 to 2004 and served on the board of trustees from 1975 until 2016. He was responsible for choosing George Campbell Jr. as successor to John Jay Iselin as president of the school.[8]

A friend of Jerry Speyer, Bernhard was involved in the Tishman Speyer bid to take over management of the Chrysler Building, the land under which is Cooper Union's biggest asset, by agreeing to Tishman's proposal for a new lease for the building.[9]

Personal life

In 1949, he married Frances Wells; they had 4 children: Adele, Michael, Susan, Steven. In 1970, he married Joan Mack Sommerfield.[10]

References

1. ^{{cite news |author=Brostoff, Marissa| url=http://forward.com/news/14237/the-lehmans-they-ve-moved-on-sad-a-little-02554/ |date=September 18, 2008 |accessdate=28 March 2016|title=The Lehmans? They've moved on. Sad? A little |newspaper=The Forward}}
2. ^Rosenberg, Jennifer [https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bernhard-dorothy-lehman Jewish Women's Archive: "Dorothy Lehman Bernhard (1903 – 1969)"]. Retrieved January 28, 2017
3. ^{{cite news | title = Merger of Salomon Impresses Analysts | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/05/business/merger-of-salomon-impresses-analysts.html | first=Karen | last=Arenson | newspaper = The New York Times | date = August 5, 1981}}
4. ^{{cite news | title = Life After Salomon Brothers | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/11/business/life-after-salomon-brothers.html | first=William | last=Glaberson | newspaper = The New York Times | date = October 11, 1987}}
5. ^{{cite web | title = Robert A. Bernhard | url = http://www.cooper.edu/about/trustees/robert-bernhard | website = Cooper Union }}
6. ^{{cite web | title = Robert A. Bernhard: Executive Profile & Biography | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=667755&privcapId=23135629 | publisher = Bloomberg }}
7. ^"Staff" Temple Emanu-El website
8. ^{{cite news | title = Cooper Union Picks Physicist as First Black President | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/18/nyregion/cooper-union-picks-physicist-as-first-black-president.html | first=Lynette | last=Holloway | newspaper = The New York Times | date = November 18, 1999}}
9. ^{{cite news | title = New York's Cultural Power Brokers; Mixing the Real Estate Business and Everyone's Pleasure | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/arts/new-york-s-cultural-power-brokers-mixing-real-estate-business-everyone-s.html | first1=Robin | last1=Pogrebin | first2=Charles | last2=Bagli |lastauthoramp=yes| newspaper = The New York Times | date = June 2, 2004}}
10. ^{{Cite web|last=|first=|authorlink=|title= Mrs. Joan Sommerfield Is Wed In Suburbs to Robert Bernhard |publisher=New York Times|date=August 2, 1970 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/02/archives/article-1-no-title.html |accessdate=March 23, 2018}}
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