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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 energy firm based in Shanghai, met with 50 potential private equity investors over the span of a few months in 2007. This guest-list included leading […]

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 region of private equity investments, as Africa is one of the fastest growing investment regions in the world today. Maturing markets and rising opportunities have […]

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 company. But for Suh Kyung-Bae, CEO of South Korean cosmetics firm AmorePacific, they are not only everyday terms; they are core tenets that symbolize the […]

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 world’s largest country is a dilemma for which Auke G. Cnossen claims to have a solution: investing in companies that intensify agricultural production. As the […]

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 not uncomfortable, you’re not learning.” That philosophy has guided Schoppert through a series of companies to the position that has been her career goal since […]

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, Paul Huck, MBA ’79, as Air Products’ senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Looking back at that interview, Crocco recalls, “I was Paul’s […]

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 after earning his MBA, he became familiar with trace detection systems, the equipment used by airport security to check passengers for minute amounts of explosive […]

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 chained to their desks for the next 20-plus years, and I thought, ‘Is this all there is? There’s more I want to do,’” says Crowley. […]

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 Ismaili Muslims, at his office outside Paris. Feerasta recalls feeling so excited and nervous he could not sleep the night before the interview. “It’s a […]