CAREER IN SHORT SELLING He worked part-time for a Merrill Lynch broker and learned the underbelly of the financial markets His journey to the top ranks of short selling began in Chicago. In 1982, he landed a position with Northern Trust, where he met an analyst named Paul Landini who taught him about short selling. During his career at Copper River Management, The New York Times described Cohodes as 'the highest-profile short-seller on Wall Street'. Many of his shorts have attained legendary status. These include: Lernout & Hauspie, one of the largest securities fraud cases in European history NovaStar Financial, for which Marc is now the subject of a Harvard Business Review case study. Harvard Business Review wrote a case study on his short of Nova Star Financial https://www.finnotes.org/people/mark-cohodes