Chazen Global Insights

From ideation to exiting and everything in between, here’s a roundup of top insights from alumni venture capitalists.

Whether it is incremental or groundbreaking — there is opportunity in every role to be innovative.

Teresa Law '81 shares the story of Mountain Hazelnuts — the largest hazelnut nursery in the world, which is planting 10 million trees, doubling the income of 15 percent of Bhutan’s population.

The head of India's largest search firm highlights five specific interventions that will improve living standards for its neediest citizens.

As the founder of Small Axe Peppers, John Crotty '96 works with community gardens to grow peppers, which he then turns into the Bronx Hot Sauce.

The agenda Xi Jinping laid out at the 19th Party Congress promises radical change. Jin-Yong Cai of TPG Capital discussed the particulars at a recent Chazen Institute event.

Financial technology is upending nearly the entire financial industry. It's even changing the very nature of money itself. 

Carolyn Disbrow is the Senior Director of Brand Marketing for CNN Worldwide and a member of Columbia Business School’s Executive MBA Class of 2018.

Erika Irish Brown ’98, global head of diversity and inclusion for financial-information powerhouse Bloomberg, is working to disrupt the modern-day workplace and open its doors to the world.

  President Trump’s choice of Jerome Powell as chair of the US Federal Reserve breaks precedent on several fronts.