2014-15 Annual Review

  • Community Involvement

    To further engage with a range of our stakeholders and improve the communities our businesses operate in, CD&R set up, in conjunction with the Harvard Business School, the Dubilier Prize and the Joseph L. Rice, III, Faculty Fellowship Fund, honoring two of the Firm's co-founders. The late Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952), and Joseph L.

    On May 29, 2015, CD&R hosted 32 students from the Washington University Olin School of Business Masters of Finance Program to share practitioner perspective on the private equity business.
    On May 29, 2015, CD&R hosted 32 students from the Washington University Olin School of Business Masters of Finance Program to share practitioner perspective on the private equity business.

    Rice, III, were both students of the school and it is the legacy of their entrepreneurial spirit and moral leadership on which the awards are founded.

    The Joseph L. Rice, III, Faculty Fellowship Fund, established in 2012, recently awarded Sandra Sucher as its first recipient. Sandra, an industry and non-profit veteran, with over 25 years of experience in hands-on-management

  • in the classroom, is a gifted teacher and the course head for Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required course in the school's MBA Program.

    Currently in its 18th year the HBS New Venture Competition (formerly known as the Business Plan Contest) includes both business and social enterprise tracks and awards more than $300,000 in cash and in-kind support to winning and runner-up student and alumni teams. The student competition is open to all Harvard MBA candidates and eligible graduate students from Harvard University. The alumni competition is open to entrants with a Harvard graduate on the founding team.

    This year the Dubilier Grand Prize of $50,000 was awarded to RapidSOS (a technology company planning to revolutionize emergency response and communication) and the founding team of Michael Martin (HBS 2015), Alex Santana (HBS 2016), Joe DiPaolo (HBS 2015), Nick Horelik, Kellen Brink, and Kaiying Liao.

    "The world needs people to be entrepreneurs because they build something that other people thought could not be done; they achieve things beyond the current imagination of what people think is possible," said HBS Dean Nitin Nohria.

    On May 29, 2015, CD&R hosted 32 students from the Washington University Olin School of Business Masters of Finance Program to share practitioner perspective on the private equity business.