For the past six years, I have proudly sponsored the MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) program at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. MIINT attracts bright young minds from around the world to participate in a year-long program where they learn about social and environmental impact investing, an inspiring concept to me [...]
One of the things in this business that really inspires me is the entrepreneurial ideas that people develop to support their communities. Take Harlem Capital Partners for example - a young venture capital firm based out of Harlem. I met with them recently for VICE TV’s program Hustle, and they pitched me to come on [...]
Photo courtesy of the Washington University School of Medicine Image: Sandy Loewentheil (L), Ting Wang, PhD (C) and Karen Loewentheil (R) My L+M co-founder Sandy and I have always shared a commitment to investing in our communities, and I was excited to hear that he and his wife have recently endowed a new professorship at [...]
Recently The Today Show featured a story about Steven Pacheco, one of the inaugural Moelis Social Entrepreneurship Fellows. Steven is a member of the team that won the 2018 Echoing Green’s The Future of Work Social Innovation Challenge for their app, CONNECTr. The team designed the app, which I’ve mentioned on this blog before, to [...]
Joseph Mahmud and Steven Pacheco present CONNECTr, an app to assist formerly incarcerated with employers, at John Jay College in New York City. Last year on this blog I mentioned that I’ve partnered with John Jay College to create the Ron Moelis Social Innovation Fellowship. The Fellowship is meant to support students who [...]
This past spring, the sixth annual MBA Impact Investing Network Training (MIINT) competition was held in Philadelphia. I’m a firm believer in the importance of social impact investing, and I’m proud to be one of the sponsors of the competition. The MIINT competition, also co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business as well as the Bridges [...]