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Amnesty International USA’s Northeast Regional Director Joshua M. Rubenstein said that while the organization expects backlash in response to its new stance, it is an important step in eradicating poverty...
...think has enabled it to make so much money in the past. The optimists argue that PE firms profit by being good at governing corporations. "When you've got overly ambitious and hardworking people who are putting their own money at risk," said Carlyle Group managing director David Rubenstein when I got him on the phone, "it's an alignment of interests with management and shareholders that will always enable private equity to make money...
...Rubenstein didn't deny that easy credit also boosted profits. And at the Buyouts East conference in New York City in late March, I heard another industry veteran, George Siguler of the firm Siguler Guff & Co., paint a grim picture of private-equity returns in a deleveraging and struggling economy. "The available universe of companies that buyouts can buy is essentially mediocre companies, and mediocre companies are going to have a much tougher time," he said...
...only city-owned buildings qualify for the grant program, Healy said. If the City does not secure the grant, it will apply again in nine to 12 months, he added. The Council also discussed efforts to implement a bicycle share program for the Boston region. Assistant City Manager Beth Rubenstein said that a regional program would be more feasible than the Cambridge-only bike sharing program that the Council had floated previously. “We’re more ambitious than that,” Rubenstein said. “We want people to envision biking from Cambridge...
...David M. Rubenstein, the founder of the Carlyle Group, the influential private equity firm, has donated $5 million to the University to support students pursuing joint degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School. The gift will provide one year’s tuition, fees, and summer internship support for up to 20 Kennedy School and Business School joint degree students per year for the next five years. In addition, some money will go toward supporting curriculum and case study development, the Kennedy School said in an announcement. The Rubenstein Fund will be available to students starting...