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Article: Studley's Midwest startries to replace a legend;Move shocks rivals in city; Ducharme seeks cooperation, sets big expansion.
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- Crain's New York Business
- Article date:
- March 6, 2000
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At first glance, they could be from different planets. In the corner office sits the legendary Julien J. Studley, a refugee from the Holocaust who earned fame and fortune with a real estate brokerage dedicated to serving tenants. His is the quintessential New York success story.
Down the hall, successor Jacque Ducharme is moving in, a Midwesterner (despite his exotic-sounding name) who grew up in obscure places like Fargo, N.D., went to school at the University of Nebraska and worked his entire three-decade career in Chicago.
Imported from hinterlands
Mr. Ducharme's appointment as president and soon-to-be chief executive of Manhattan-based ...