This achievement was partly due to his excellent undergraduate performance and partly thanks to his father, at various times head of a second tier oil company, Undersecretary at the Commerce Department, real estate developer and, most recently, Ambassador to Norway. Logan was looking forward to going skiing there at Christmas.

Logan had extended his business school studies by taking advantage of a special exchange program with Japanese business students. He flew to Tokyo, took a three month crash course in Japanese and spent the next six months at two Japanese firms, one an electronics giant, another a major car maker, studying their corporate culture and production techniques. He then returned for his final term at B-school and was recruited by Steve Aubrecht, a partner at Grey, Alcott and head of Corporate Finance.

Steve Aubrecht, who also had connections to the current and previous administrations, knew Logan's father and liked what he saw in the aspiring corporate financier. Logan began working at Grey, Alcott just at the right time to take advantage of the 80's boom years on Wall Street.

By the time of the '87 stock market crash, Logan was a Vice President. He had also been able to purchase the apartment on the Upper West Side. Two years later, he was made a Senior Vice President and part of his annual bonus began to take the form of Grey, Alcott shares. This year, he expected to be made a partner at the December partnership meeting.