Amherst’s Genger Charles is heartened by the consensus that these challenges must be met. To do so, we must not lose sight of what housing means to people.
The theme of this year’s conference, “Shaping a Shared Future,” reflected ongoing global disruptions as well as promising innovations—all of which impact our shared future. BCG experts, along with cross-industry leaders—including CEOs, investors, policymakers, academics, and thought leaders—convened at Milken to discuss the various challenges and opportunities. At BCG, our experts continuously explore the elements that will ready companies for the future and make the world a better place. This means developing the ability to anticipate trends in digital and AI, health care, geopolitics and global trade, climate and climate financing, among other areas—and then to build strengths to influence these trends for competitive and societal advantage.
Highlights from Milken
Video
May 21, 2024
The Challenges of Creating and Accessing Housing
Video
May 10, 2024
Seizing the Sustainable Finance Opportunity
Yana Watson Kakar of CDPQ discusses the $200 trillion opportunity in sustainable finance—and how capital can be deployed to advance the energy transition.
Video
May 13, 2024
What Makes a Good Private Equity Firm?
New Mountain Capital’s Steven Klinksy reflects on the industry’s evolution and describes how successful private equity firms today focus on building and managing great businesses.
Video
May 9, 2024
Bridging the Investment Gap for Women and Minorities
Only 3% of investment capital reaches women and minorities. Patrice King Brickman of Inspire Access shares how redirecting funds could revolutionize entrepreneurship.
Video
May 13, 2024
Cost Is a Core Priority for CIOs
CIOs have to balance the competing imperatives of growth and cost, including IT spending in core areas such as AI and security, says BCG’s Clark O’Niell.
Video
May 21, 2024
The $10 Trillion Opportunity in Inclusive Finance
Four billion people are excluded from the financial system. Tala’s Shivani Siroya shares how new technologies are helping to expand access—and why we all benefit.
Investment Strategy
Video
May 6, 2024
How Investors are Avoiding Disruption Risk
Amid economic uncertainties, investors are targeting historically resilient sectors and seeking interventions to enhance operations and performance, says BCG’s Christy Carter.
Video
May 28, 2024
Investing in a Volatile Global Market
Scott Geary of Wellington Management looks at some of the trends investors are tracking, including inflation, opportunities in Japan and India, and health care innovation.
Video
May 13, 2024
Navigating Market Changes with Diverse Assets
How to adapt investment strategies to a changing market? For David Geenberg of Strategic Value Partners, it means broad geographic scope and diverse asset classes.
Video
May 10, 2024
Leveraging Growth Equity Amid Uncertain Markets
In a tough fundraising climate, investing in international entrepreneurship is a promising path to prosperity and peace. For growth equity, General Atlantic’s Martín Escobari sees hurdles and opportunities.
Video
May 21, 2024
Navigating the Investment Hype Cycle
As the venture capital market gains momentum, B Capital’s Raj Ganguly offers strategies for investing wisely while making the most of the new opportunities.
Video
May 8, 2024
A Tale of Two Markets
Relative to last year’s market, we now see narrowing valuation gaps and increased opportunities in lower and middle markets. David Breach of Vista Equity Partners describes how investment strategies are changing.
Artificial Intelligence
Video
May 13, 2024
The Creative Potential of AI Assisted Discovery
Thomas Fink of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences discusses AI’s role in advancing innovation and his team’s collaboration with the BCG Bruce Henderson Institute.
Video
May 13, 2024
Meeting AI’s Data and Power Demands
AI will require significant investment in data center and power generation capacity. Carlyle’s Pooja Goyal discusses the energy mix needed to meet these demands.
Video
May 6, 2024
AI as an Asset: Private Equity’s New Frontier
Many middle-market companies struggle to integrate AI. BCG's Greg Emerson highlights this as an opportunity for private equity operations to lead and unlock value.
Video
May 13, 2024
The Multifaceted Impact of AI
From customer service to marketing and software development, AI is revolutionizing industries. Lightspeed’s Ravi Mhatre discusses its transformative impact.
Climate Change and Sustainability
Video
May 13, 2024
Climate Risks Redefine Capital
Climate change is a growing financial risk. All sectors will need to evolve to integrate climate considerations into their investment frameworks, argues Stacy Swann of Resilient Earth Capital.
Video
May 13, 2024
Empowering Women to Address the Climate Crisis
USAID’s Gillian Caldwell and BCG’s Veronica Chau discuss the Climate Gender Equity Fund—a public-private venture that empowers women and their communities.
Video
May 7, 2024
Sustainable Cities—Good for Business, Better for the Environment
Streetlife’s Laura Fox points to a historic chance to merge environmental impact with immense economic gain, with $5 trillion likely to be available for cities’ net zero transformation.
Video
May 13, 2024
Embracing Sustainability Standards
New global sustainability standards prompt a shift from voluntary to mandatory reporting. BCG’s Veronica Chau and IFRS’ Jingdong Hua discuss company compliance and investor communication.
Video
May 13, 2024
A Solution for Feeding the Future
With the global population set to hit 10 billion by 2050, Air Protein’s Lisa Dyson offers a sustainable solution to grow more food on less land.
Video
May 9, 2024
A Partnership Approach to Restoring Landscapes
Zach Knight of Blue Forest discusses how his nonprofit partners with public and private sector organizations to help finance conservation projects and other nature-based solutions.
Bringing Our Expertise to the Milken Institute Global Conference
Our BCG delegation brought deep expertise, knowledge, and experience across sectors to the conference:
We’re a trusted partner to the top ten private equity firms and tech investors, and we’ve assisted nearly 70% of the top 60
tech capital investors globally.
We have partnered with companies around the world to uncover and address
DEI gaps among their workforce, products and services, and suppliers.
We are a supporting partner of the
ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI), a first-of-its-kind, industry-led effort to drive convergence on meaningful ESG metrics for the private equity industry.
We work with clients across the
health care value chain, from pharmaceutical R&D, to corporate M&A, to digital and AI, and beyond.
We’re collaborating with OpenAI to help our clients realize the power of OpenAI technologies and solve the most complex challenges using
generative AI—responsibly. We have successfully supported clients on their energy transition journeys by reducing their emissions and expanding their low-carbon technology initiatives, thereby unlocking new efficiencies, opportunities, and value.
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