{"id":24319,"date":"2018-04-06T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=24319"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:54:46","slug":"schwarzman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=24319","title":{"rendered":"UNC student leaders meet with CEO, founder of Schwarzman Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left, Larry Han, Robert Garris, Stephen Schwarzman and Kevin Guskiewicz. (photo by Donn Young)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, one of the world\u2019s largest investment firms, visited UNC-Chapel Hill on Wednesday and talked leadership with an invited group of student leaders.<\/p>\n

In a discussion moderated by Kevin Guskiewicz, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Schwarzman shared his views on leadership versus management, creating a culture of success in an organization, and the inspiration behind his creating the Schwarzman Scholars program in 2016.<\/p>\n

\"Stephen
Stephen Schwarzman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, told Carolina students that his classic liberal arts education at Yale University profoundly shaped his career. (photo by Donn Young)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective program modeled after the Rhodes Scholars program. Recipients attend a one-year master\u2019s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing designed to prepare them to become the next generation of global leaders.<\/p>\n

In response to a student\u2019s question about the role of liberal arts in creating leaders, Schwarzman said his classic liberal arts education at Yale University profoundly shaped his career. He recalled taking a course on culture and behavior that was particularly insightful and taught him how to read people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m terrible at math. \u2026 All I know is how people react to stuff. If you know how people will react, you will always know the answer,\u201d said Schwarzman.<\/p>\n

Also attending the event were two Carolina alumni with ties to the program \u2014 Robert Garris, Schwarzman Scholars\u2019 global director of admissions who received his master\u2019s and Ph.D. in history, and Larry Han<\/a>, a recent UNC graduate. Han was a Phillips Ambassador in 2014, graduated with a degree in biostatistics in 2016, and was named a Schwarzman Scholar that same year, in the inaugural class of recipients.<\/p>\n

The approximately two dozen students attending the event had already distinguished themselves in some way at Carolina. Some were serving in student government, others were Morehead-Cain scholars, Kenan scholars, Honors Weir fellows, Phillips Ambassadors, or students involved in the College\u2019s innovative Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship, among other distinctions.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan leadership be taught?\u201d Guskiewicz asked Schwarzman to kick off the conversation.<\/p>\n

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In a discussion moderated by Dean Guskiewicz, Schwarzman shared his views on leadership versus management, creating a culture of success in an organization, and the inspiration behind his creating the Schwarzman Scholars program. (photo by Donn Young)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cManagement can be taught. That\u2019s a skill no one is born with,\u201d said Schwarzman. \u201cIn terms of leadership, you can refine your skills, but you have to be interested<\/em>. You have to want to change something. You have to want to have an impact. You have to want to make something better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guskiewicz also asked Schwarzman to elaborate on his view that the Schwarzman Scholars program was designed to create change on a global scale. Schwarzman, who has been a resource to multiple presidents, including on global and trade matters, started his answer by noting that people the world over have built-in biases about other cultures. He recounted how he has been in meetings abroad in which someone will make a stereotypical characterization about Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually, there\u2019s someone at the table who says, \u2018No, I went to school in the U.S. That\u2019s not how it works,\u2019\u201d he said. The cultural gap is bridged through exposure to other cultures.<\/p>\n

Schwarzman said he wants to do the same by sending students from the United States and other countries to China, to familiarize themselves with that nation\u2019s culture and government. He personally donated over $100 million to launch Schwarzman Scholars and is leading a campaign to raise $500 million to fully endow it.<\/p>\n

Han told the students that one of the most unexpected elements of the program was the opportunity to interact with Chinese students who were destined to be the future leaders of the country. \u201cI met with students who were going to be mayors at age 27,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Learn more about applying for the Schwarzman Scholars Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By Geneva Collins<\/em><\/p>\n

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