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We are excited to announce that Tom Hill, President and CEO of Blackstone Hedge Fund Solutions, received the Allocator Lifetime Achievement Award from Institutional Investor, recognizing the significant impact he has made on the industry.

Yesterday, Blackstone Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Stephen A. Schwarzman sent a letter to BX shareholders marking the 10-year anniversary of Blackstone’s 2007 initial public offering. In honor of this milestone, we dug into the archives and pulled out some behind-the-scenes photos from Blackstone’s 2007 IPO Road Show.

Blackstone Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Stephen A. Schwarzman today sent a letter to BX shareholders on the 10-year anniversary of Blackstone’s 2007 initial public offering (IPO).

Earlier this month, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Blackstone’s Global Head of Real Estate Jon Gray, Blackstone Charitable Foundation Executive Director Amy Stursberg, and ChicagoNEXT Director of Inclusive Entrepreneurship Jimmy Odom took the stage in Chicago to announce the inaugural class of The Blackstone Inclusive Entrepreneurship Challenge grantees.

Last week, Jon Gray, Global Head of Real Estate at Blackstone, introduced a new exhibition featuring artwork by Talia Levitt, Madhini Nirmal, Leonard Reibstein, and Andy Van Dinh, students currently enrolled in the Hunter College Master of Fine Arts program.

See the ways Blackstone’s Portfolio Operations team is building a culture of continuous improvement across our portfolio companies.

In 2014, Blackstone acquired the Gates Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial belts and hoses. Lean, the process of making companies more efficient, was critical to our thesis.

Stephen Can and Vern Perry, Co-Heads of Blackstone’s Strategic Partners, spoke last month at the 2017 CalPERS and CalSTRS Diversity Forum.

Today, a full year ahead of schedule, our firm announced that it has reached our hiring target, and will redouble our commitment with a new goal of hiring 50,000 more veterans in the next five years.

Blackstone portfolio company Cylance, a cyber security firm focused on preventative endpoint protection, was ranked ninth on CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” list, which honors private companies across industries whose innovations are “changing the world.”

Four years after her Harvard Business Review article “Truths for Our Daughters,” Joan Solotar, Head of Private Wealth Solutions & External Relations, asks her daughter Lindsay what truths she’s learned in the first year of her career.

As part of its diversity and inclusion efforts, Blackstone recently established OUT BX, a group dedicated to raising awareness of social and professional challenges impacting LGBTQ individuals.

When looking at Blackstone’s common units (NYSE:BX) over the last decade, one issue that often gets lost in the public discussion is the substantial amount of distributions the firm has paid to unitholders.

Recently, some commentators have contended that “financial companies” are actually just “tech companies” in another form – given the increasingly important role technology plays on Wall Street.

Blackstone Chairman and CEO Steve Schwarzman participated in a fireside chat at the Harvard Association for Law & Business (HALB)

Paige Ross, Blackstone Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Human Resources, was recently featured in The Talent Strategy Group’s InConversation series, which showcases HR leaders discussing their experiences and approaches.

Since 2013, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation has deployed over $8 million in Blackstone Innovation Grants to support innovative organizations working with entrepreneurs. As a result of these grants, organizations have expanded their reach and built new programs to support more ventures and create more jobs. In the most recent cohort of grantees, Blackstone Innovation Grants program supported six organizations, and helped these organizations to successfully expand programs to ten states, enabling more than 1,500 entrepreneurs to achieve better business outcomes, with help from over 580 mentors.

Blackstone was again named by eFinancialCareers as the number one “ideal employer” in private equity – a position the firm also held in 2016.

Since 2010, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation has deployed over $40 million to programs that support and empower entrepreneurs. With programs focused on supporting entrepreneurs from college campuses to the next high-growth companies, Blackstone Charitable Foundation programs reach over 30 regions and thousands of entrepreneurs. A new video released this week profiles a few of the benefactors of these programs.

Joe Baratta, Blackstone’s Global Head of Private Equity, was profiled in last month’s Institutional Investor. Click here to read the full article.