CD&R continued to support the efforts of the Private Capital Research Institute (“PCRI”). The PCRI, chaired by Joe Rice, is an outgrowth of the World Economic Forum’s multi-year analysis of the global economic impact of private equity.

• In February 2014, PCRI hosted a forum titled Private Equity’s Identity Change: Transparency, Efficiency, Alignment and Globalization. The event featured leading LPs and industry experts on the changes in the private equity industry.
• In April 2015, the PCRI sponsored an event in Silicon Valley entitled, "Driving Growth with Big Ideas: Private Capital's Role in Global Innovation." Speakers included Peter Thiel (founder of Paypal), John Powers, (CIO of Stanford Management Company), Josh Lerner (Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School) and others.

In April 2014, Harvard Business School and CD&R hosted an inaugural event for the Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellowship Fund, which was established in 2012 to promote moral leadership. The event was highlighted by a panel discussion titled “Why Doing Right is the Right Thing to Do,” which featured Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA CREF; Karen Gordon Mills, Former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and Member of President Obama’s Cabinet; and Narayana Murthy, Founder and Executive Chairman of Infosys. The panel was facilitated by Rohit Deshpande, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School.

In April 2015, Harvard Business School awarded the $50,000 Dubilier Prize, the top award in the annual New Venture Competition, to RapidSOS (a technology planning

to revolutionize emergency response and communication). The award is named in honor of CD&R Co-Founder Martin Dubilier.

In June 2015, CD&R collaborated with Debevoise & Plimpton and PwC to host “The Balance Project,” a networking event and panel discussion focused on issues related to work-life balance.