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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.

Like many companies, Blackstone strives to create a positive impact within the local communities that we call home. In New York City, we are proud to have built a long, multi-faceted partnership with City Harvest, the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to helping feed the nearly 1.4 million New Yorkers facing hunger.

Chris Heady, Chairman of Asia Pacific and Head of Real Estate Asia, shares how Blackstone Real Estate invests across Asia today.

Blackstone’s Global Head of Real Estate Jon Gray recently sat down to discuss how the trend toward re-urbanization in the United States and globally is impacting real estate investing today.

Blackstone recently announced that funds managed by its real estate business have acquired the Windsor Atlantica Hotel on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Blackstone portfolio company CEOs came together to hear how we’re thinking about the potential for growth in 2017.

Bill Murphy traveled to the South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) last week to moderate a panel on the importance of building and leveraging networks to support college entrepreneurs, drawing upon insights from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s program, Blackstone LaunchPad.

Bill Murphy, Blackstone’s Chief Technology Officer, appeared on the latest episode of the “Waters Wavelength” podcast to talk about how businesses should deal with “technical debt,” – the legacy IT systems piled on top of one another than can hamper innovation – a topic he recently covered on our blog.

As we prepare to head to South by Southwest (SXSW) next week, Amy Stursberg, Executive Director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, sat down with Brad Feld, co-Founder of Foundry Group and TechStars, to discuss entrepreneurial hubs, building successful networks, and how to make the best use of your time in Austin.

Companies today are missing the reason why they can’t keep up with younger, leaner competitors. Bill Murphy, Blackstone’s Chief Technology Officer, explains.