A lack of focus on diversity and high tuition costs have kept down the population of African-Americans at business schools and harmed their pipeline to corporate jobs, graduates and school advisers say.
The Sterling Group has closed its fifth flagship private equity fund on a $2 billion hard cap, exceeding a predecessor that raised $1.25 billion in 2015.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, announced Wednesday morning that they have given $120 million toward scholarships at historically Black colleges and universities — the largest individual donation to the institutions to date.
Investment managers are concerned both with controlling costs in volatile conditions and with expansion into new markets, according to a recent survey from Northern Trust Corporation.