Richard B. Fisher (1936 – December 16, 2004) was president and chairman of the

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Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the fir ...

Early life and education

Fisher was born in

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. In 1944 at age 8, Fisher contracted a severe case of

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. Doctors told his parents that Fisher should be put in a

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where he could learn to do things with his hands. One doctor saw Fisher's potential, and even though his parents had little money, he was able to attend the

William Penn Charter School William Penn Charter School (commonly known as Penn Charter or simply PC) is an independent school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1689 at the urging of William Penn as the "Public Grammar School" and chartered in 1689 to be op ...

on a full

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Career

Fisher became the Chairman Emeritus of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. in 2000.

Personal life

Fisher was a noted art collector, with paintings by

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

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, as well as younger artists such as Robert Baribeau, in his collection of abstract expressionists.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Richard B. 1936 births 2004 deaths Harvard Business School alumni Princeton University alumni People with polio William Penn Charter School alumni