据摩根士丹利集团知情人士日前透露，在未来几天内，摩根士丹利将会解雇旗下投资银行部门的22位管理经理。集团首席执行官约翰·马克表示，裁员将改变该部门头重脚轻的毛病，同时也为年轻人留出发展空间。 　

    据《纽约时报》11月16日报道，约翰·马克一直试图带领公司走出困境。这次他将目光投向了裁员。马克一直就以大胆裁员而闻名于业界。在刚刚被任命为公司CEO的时候，他就曾经大刀阔斧地裁减了旗下1000名业绩不佳的股票经纪人。然而，此次对于投资银行部门的人员裁减计划，仍然被视为一次大胆的行动，因为投资银行部门代表了摩根士丹利的传统核心业务。 　

    在15日举行的一次投资方大会上，马克表示投资银行部门已经在盈利能力和股票表现方面落在了业界平均水平之后。与此同时，马克还公布了自己的改革计划，其中包括向直接股权投资业务方面注资10亿美元，以帮助其重整旗鼓并向其他业务类型过渡，例如抵押贷款以及股本衍生业务。马克还指出，比起公司的竞争对手，自从2001年以来摩根士丹利所完成的收购计划是最少的。

    John Mack, under pressure to lift Morgan Stanley's profit and its flagging stock price, will take his eponymous knife to the firm's highly regarded investment banking division and dismiss as many as 22 managing directors in the coming days, according to a person briefed on the plan.

    Mack, known among his Wall Street peers as Mack the Knife, has already eliminated the jobs of 1,000 underperforming retail brokers since being named chief executive. But the move to cull the investment banking unit is a bold one, even for him.

    Morgan Stanley's investment bankers, and its managing directors in particular, were at the vanguard of the internal rebellion that drove Philip Purcell, Mack's predecessor, into retirement in June. They also represent the core of the old firm, before the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter days, and have been ardent defenders of what they see as its elite Wall Street status.

    The return of Mack, who had once been president of the firm, was cheered with special vigor within Morgan Stanley's investment banking ranks, but the decision to streamline the department signals that there are no sacred cows when it comes to cutting costs.

    At an investor conference on Tuesday, Mack seemed to echo this thought, saying that the investment bank had lagged behind the industry in profitability and stock performance.

    "To move our stock, we need to restore premium financial performance," he said.

    He announced plans to spend an additional $1 billion on direct equity investments and to expand in areas where the firm has fallen behind, like the mortgage market and equity derivatives. He also lamented the fact that Morgan Stanley had completed far fewer acquisitions than its peers on Wall Street since 2001.