高盛权力角逐众生相

    华尔街其他首席执行官们告诉《财富》杂志称，除非柯恩今年就能够坐上头把交椅（虽然没有其他显而易见的候任者），否则科恩最终很难如愿以偿。姑且不论业界的看法是否正确，但人们普遍认为柯恩和布莱克费恩是极其相似的管理者，他们不守规矩、横冲直撞的方式已将过去以客户为中心的文化引入歧途。正像布兰克费恩曾经告诉《财富》杂志的那样，“我们以前在J. Aron 部门（他和柯恩一起为该金属交易部门工作多年）工作的时候，字典里没有‘客户’或‘顾客’这种字眼。但我们有‘交易对手’，因为我们不知道‘对手’这个词怎么写。”既然认为布兰克费恩和柯恩都抱着这样的态度，柯恩担任首席执行官可能并不会让那些希望看到高盛高层真正有所改变的股东们感到满意。

    人们早已开始打赌如果布兰克费恩继续留任，柯恩的位子还能保多久。这很大程度上取决于布兰克费恩能否继续跟一个似乎看扁他、还随时准备抢他饭碗的人共事。

约翰•罗杰斯，高盛执行副总裁、幕僚长和董事会秘书

    一些高盛前雇员表示，自从2001年罗杰斯开始担任高盛幕僚长，他帮助打造了华尔街所谓的高盛方式——也就是围绕高盛建起严密的静锥区，尽可能地保护员工免受审查，并让高管内斗这样的事情远离公众视线。事实上，高盛的家务事总是麻烦不断，领导人更替也总是鸡飞狗跳，但正如一位前高管所述，外界没有实时目睹这些闹剧。但过去几个月高盛内部的这些脏事儿都被抖搂了出来，罗杰斯本人也被解除了高盛和工会谈判的首席协调人职务；工会敦促高盛分拆布兰克费恩的董事长和首席执行官两项职责。尽管做出了最大的努力，但现在已无人能阻止合伙人们泄漏公司内部争斗的细节，甚至连罗杰斯也办不到。

麦克•埃文思，高盛副董事长兼新兴市场全球主管

    柯恩出手抢夺布兰克费恩的宝座前，很早就有报道称埃文斯也参与了这场角逐。这位投资银行家及奥运金牌得主（赛艇项目，代表加拿大参赛）去年1月被擢升至一个新设立的职位，掌管公司新兴市场业务。几乎是同时就有传言称，他将成为下一任首席执行官，特别是鉴于他正在积极弥补高盛受损的声誉。他曾担任旨在改变高盛对待客户方式的企业标准委员会（Business Standards Committee）主席。

    一名高盛合伙人告诉《财富》杂志称，埃文斯曾指望借高盛现有文化（普遍认为始作俑者是布兰克费恩和柯恩）备受争议之际，加强对公司的控制和影响力。但据接近高盛董事会的一位消息人士称，董事会最终选择继续效忠于布兰克费恩，埃文斯看来已渐行渐远。真的吗？彭博社（Bloomberg）的一篇专栏文章认定，埃文斯事实上受益于格雷格•史密斯风波。随着公众谴责布兰克费恩和柯恩领导下的高盛文化，彭博社认为，“深谙权术的埃文斯……可以在高盛董事会和公众面前塑造一个精于世故、以客户为重的救世主和老派投资银行家的形象。”

约翰•布莱恩，高盛董事会首席独立董事

    高盛权力斗争中的一个转折是董事会设立了首席独立董事职位，据报道此举旨在满足股东提出的由两人分别担任董事长和首席执行官的想法。正如路透社（Reuters）一篇评论所述，布兰克费恩事实上控制了董事会，“近年来董事会更大程度上已成为一个需要解决的管理问题，不再是CEO需要对之负责的权力机构。”

    《华尔街日报》报道称，高盛没有解除布兰克费恩的董事长职务（或者更进一步，解除他的首席执行官职务），而是设立了首席独立董事这个职务。这位董事将评估首席执行官的表现等等。股东美国州县市雇员联盟表示，首席独立董事将“对公司行为和利益冲突提供亟需的重要审查”。最终获得这个职位的布莱恩是Sara Lee前首席执行官和多年的董事会成员，今年即将退休。从薪酬（堪称华尔街最重要的指标）来看，布莱恩对评估布莱克费恩的表现可能有着复杂的感受。布莱克费恩的总薪酬缩水，他的奖金就从去年的540万美元降到了今年的300万美元。但他的基础薪水从去年的水平上涨了两倍多。

金世禄，高盛董事会成员，苏黎世金融服务集团前首席执行官

    布莱恩今年退休后，金世禄将成为首席独立董事。他也将成为高盛公司治理和任命委员会的主席。金世禄自2009年以来一直担任高盛董事；和布莱恩不同，他与金融服务业关系密切。除了经营苏黎世金融服务集团（Zurich Financial），金世禄同时还是会计师事务所普华永道（PricewaterhouseCoopers）的首席执行官。如果布莱克费恩年底前继续担任首席执行官，今后将由金世禄负责评估他的表现。

    译者：早稻米

    Other Wall Street CEOs have told Fortune that unless Cohn gets the top spot this year -- while there is no other obvious successor lined up -- they don't believe that he will ultimately get the job. There is a perception, true or not, that the two men are very similar leaders, and that their rough-and-tumble style has transformed a formerly client-centric culture for the worse. As Blankfein once told Fortune, "We didn't have the word 'client' or 'customer' at the old J. Aron [the metals trading division where he worked with Cohn for years]. We had counterparties - and that's because we didn't know how to spell the word 'adversary.'" Since both Blankfein and Cohn are believed to embody this attitude, making Cohn CEO may not satisfy shareholders who want real change at the top.

    People have already begun to bet on how long Cohn will keep his job if Blankfein stays. That may greatly depend on whether Blankfein can work with a man who seemingly saw him at his weakest and made a grab for his job.

John Rogers, executive vice president, chief of staff and secretary to the board

    Former Goldman employees say that, since becoming chief of staff in 2001, Rogers has helped foster what is known on the Street as The Goldman Way -- a strict cone of silence that surrounds the firm, protects employees as much as possible from scrutiny, and keeps things like executive internecine warfare far from the public eye. Family business at Goldman is often messy and succession in the past has been chaotic, but, as one former executive put it, the world didn't get to watch the show in real time. But the company's dirty laundry has been aired very publicly over the last few months, and Rogers himself was outed as a chief negotiator between Goldman and the union that pushed to split Blankfein's chairman and CEO roles. Despite best efforts, no one, not even Rogers, has the power to keep partners from leaking details about goings on at the firm.

J. Michael Evans, vice chairman and global head of growth markets

    Long before Cohn was moving in on Blankfein's job, Evans was reportedly putting his hat in the ring. The investment banker and Olympic gold medalist (rowing, Canada) was promoted last January to a newly-created position overseeing the firm's emerging markets business. Almost immediately there were rumors that he would be the next CEO, particularly given that he was actively working to fix Goldman's damaged reputation. He was the head of the Business Standards Committee, which was formed to change the way the bank treated clients.

    A Goldman partner tells Fortune that Evans hoped to use the scrutiny surrounding Goldman's current culture, widely viewed as the creation of Blankfein and Cohn, to gain control and influence at the firm. But at that time the board ultimately remained loyal to Blankfein, says a source close to the board, and it seemed that Evans was on his way out. Or was he? A Bloomberg column asserts that Evans actually benefited from the Greg Smith brouhaha. With the "public indictment of Goldman's culture under the leadership of Blankfein and Cohn," Bloomberg argues that "the Machiavellian Evans… can be presented to the Goldman board -- and to the public -- as a worldly, client- oriented, cleaner-than-clean savior and return of the old-school style investment-banker at Goldman."

John Bryan, lead director, Goldman Sachs board

    A twist was thrown into the Goldman power struggle when the board created the position of lead director, a move that was reportedly made to satisfy shareholders who wanted to divide the roles of chairman and CEO between two people. As one Reuters editorial put it, Blankfein has effectively controlled the board and "in recent history the board has been more of a problem to be managed than a powerful entity to whom the CEO is accountable."

    Rather than strip Blankfein of the chairman job (or, worse, the CEO role), the WSJ says that the company created the lead director position. This director will, among other things, evaluate the performance of the chief executive. AFSCME said that this lead director would "provide a much-needed and vital check on the company's practices and conflicts of interest." The new role went to Bryan, a former-CEO and longtime board member of Sara Lee, who is retiring this year. Looked at through the lens of compensation (arguably the metric that matters most on Wall Street), it seems that Bryan had mixed feelings about the CEO's performance. Blankfein's overall compensation shrank, and his bonus dropped from $5.4 million last year to $3 million this year. But his base salary more than tripled from last year.

James Schiro, Goldman board member and former CEO of Zurich Financial Services

    When Bryan retires this year, Schiro will become the lead director. He will also be the chair of the corporate governance and nominating committee. Schiro has been a Goldman director since 2009; and unlike Bryan, he is steeped in the world of financial services. In addition to running Zurich Financial, Schiro was also the CEO of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. If Blankfein stays on as CEO through this year, it will be Schiro who evaluates his performance going forward.