# Professor Roy Smith comments on Donald Trump's business empire

1 Faculty News November 3, 2016 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/4f520ae6-a01c-11e6-891e-abe238dee8e2) -- “'He was very involved with the big banks during his Atlantic City days, but none of that worked out well for the banks,' says [Roy Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/roy-smith), a former Goldman Sachs partner who is a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. 'I don’t know anyone in a top position at a major publicly traded financial firm who is for him.'"

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