Katzman started prepping kids for the SAT in 1981 after graduating from Princeton University and working a short stint in software development at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank.
In taking these personnel decisions in advance, Mr Harrison is applying lessons learned working for his predecessor, Walter Shipley, in the mergers of the 1990s that created today's Chase out of Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical, and the old Chase, best known as the Rockefeller family bank.