How the Corporate Titan Rocked Wall Street

Henry Kravis is an American billionaire and co-founder of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). Placing a high value on privacy, Kravis declined to appear in the program himself, leaving the filmmakers to interview business magnates and Wall Street heavyweights to gain insight into the man behind the reputation. Considered an icon in the world of finance for defining the private equity industry, his role in molding Wall Street is described here by his peers and competitors in the financial world.

The son of a successful petroleum engineer, Kravis was born into wealth and mirrored his father's success in his own life, studying economics and moving to New York in the sixties, where he interned in finance and enrolled in Columbia's MBA program. Along with his cousin George Roberts, Kravis accepted a position with Bear Stearns where they began ...

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