"We saw his merit and promoted him very quickly to professor, " says Robert A. Weinberg, an MIT professor and Whitehead scientist.

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Goldman Sachs has been unusual in having several times flourished under a top management double-act notably John Whitehead and John Weinberg, and later Stephen Friedman and Robert Rubin, who now heads the Treasury.

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