Lehman Brothers: It's Too Small!

Lehman Brothers.

It was a financial company based on Wall Street, hailed as one of Wall Street's Big Five investment banks.

For more than 150 years since its founding, it had used its vast financial resources to make waves in financial markets around the world, reaping enormous profits. Just last June, in 2002, two major American financial journals, BusinessWeek and International Financing Review, had both named Lehman Brothers the "Best Investment Bank of 2002." Its overall research strength had also ranked first in Institutional Investor's rankings.

At the same time, it had a deep reach into fields including technology, the Internet, medicine, real estate, energy, and mining.

But was that all?

Of course not!

Lehman Brothers' investment division also owned stakes in Disneyland and Universal Studios. Though the stakes weren't large, they still brought the company substantial returns every year.

And now—

They had their sights set on the Harry Potter Theme Park, which was still in the planning stages.

At that moment, only two people were in the vast CEO's office: CEO Richard Fuld, and Ryan Smith, who managed the 110-person investment team and served as the head of Lehman's investment division.

"Remember what I said!"

"I don't care about the process. I only want results!"

"Our investments in Disneyland and Universal Studios have brought the company enormous returns over the past eight years, totaling no less than $340 million. We've made more than double our investment. Now you have to get us involved in the Harry Potter Theme Park."

"Don't forget, the person spearheading the Harry Potter Theme Park is Zucker Wald, known as the 'Young Fox.'"

CEO Richard Fuld said gravely.

Ryan Smith: "..."

That was right!

Zucker had acquired another new title. Wall Street insiders had dubbed him the Young Fox!

Since Zucker had founded Da