Steve Schwarzman — a Role Model for Today’s America
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009If you haven’t heard the name Steve Schwarzman, this should interest you. In 2008 Stephen A. Schwarzman made the rank of fifty-three on the list of the most well-to-do individuals in the US, but it is his tremendous accomplishments in the business sector and also his donations to society which set this story apart from the crowd. Steve’s biography has inspired multitudes of individuals from the wealthy to the underprivilged and it serves as a reminder that anyone can be a success through some hard work.
The Blackstone Group was initially established by Steve and Peter Peterson as a business offering up premium investment advice and private-equity management. Of course, the Blackstone Group is nowadays among the financial sector’s most profitable M&A companies. Spending many of his adolescent years in near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Steve received his early education in the Abingdon school district. Subsequent to graduating high school Steve decided on undergraduate study at the prestigious Yale University in Connecticut. He opted to advance his training at the well esteemed Harvard Business School, graduating in 1972. Then Steve joined with Lehman Brothers investment bank, located in New York. Before he celebrated his thirty second birthday, he was already on the board.
Steve doesn’t simply offer his time to a variety of not for profit organizations, but he has also been a part-time professor at Yale. What’s more, he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the JFK Center for the Performing Arts in New York, New York. Additionally, he announced in the spring of 2008 that he was committing 100 million dollars to the New York Public Library to help in funding their expansion. In fact, the library called one of their new buildings after him. As you would expect Stephen A. Schwarzman is now one of the United States’ elite — Times Magazine last year appointed him as one of the 100 most influential individuals on the planet. His rise in the business and financial world has certainly been miraculous, not to mention the fact that his unceasing support of music and the arts has doubtlessly encouraged everybody around him.
Considering his wisdom, experience, and dedication, it seems like there isn’t anything he can’t achieve. On the whole, Steve has made an astronomical difference to both the business space and the world at large.