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Private Equity is Back in China with Full Force
Opportunities lie within secondary market exits, growth capital investments, and outbound strategic acquisitions by Kevin Wang, MBA ‘13 Wallace, the IPO Project Manager for QS Solar, a privately held alternative […]
Private Equity in Africa
The stars are aligned for major private equity investments to take place in Africa. by Derick Appia-kubi, MBA ’13 There has been a lot of focus on Africa as a […]
Gregory Crowley, MBA ’00
Engineering his own niche by Irene Kim Working in a large engineering firm in the late 1990s, Gregory Crowley had a revelation. “I was surrounded by other engineers who seemed […]
Steve Milt MBA ’02
Handling the supply side of airport security by Irene Kim A true entrepreneur, Steve Milt spotted a niche and created a business to fill it. Working in the homelandsecurity industry […]
M. Scott Crocco, MBA ’90, and Paul Huck, MBA ’79
Passing the torch When M. Scott Crocco, MBA ’90, first interviewed with Air Products in 1990, he could hardly have imagined that 23 years later he would succeed his interviewer, […]
Hakim Feerasta, MBA ’74, MPS ’85
Fighting Poverty in Central Asia When Hakim Feerasta was a senior financial analyst at IBM in Toronto, he was invited to visit the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the […]
Wendy L. Schoppert ’88, MBA ’89
Deliberate and Bold When Wendy L. Schoppert mentors young professionals hoping to follow in her footsteps, she always offers the same advice: “Make yourself uncomfortable,” she says, “because if you’re […]
Auke G. Cnossen, MBA ’04
Greenhouse Growing in China China has 22 percent of the world’s population but only about eight percent of its arable agricultural land. How to generate enough food to supply the […]
Bringing Beauty to the World, Inside and Out
Suh Kyung-Bae, MBA ’87, CEO of South Korean cosmetics firm AmorePacific Beauty. Harmony. Balance. Happiness. These are not words that you’d typically hear from the CEO of a multibillion-dollar global […]