LASPAU

LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Harvard University. Since 1964, LASPAU has trained over 20,000 of the most accomplished innovators and practitioners from Latin American and Caribbean universities, NGOs, and public and private sectors through higher education scholarship programs, research opportunities, workshops, and seminars.

The Initiative for the Development of Academic Innovation (IDIA) is LASPAU’s initiative for teaching and learning excellence. Since 2004, IDIA has worked with universities throughout Latin America to enhance their teaching quality. The 10,000 Women, Faculty Development Program will benefit from IDIA’s extensive experience and knowledge of best practices in higher education.

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Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking and securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and other major financial centers around the world.

Goldman Sachs believes that expanding entrepreneurial talent and the managerial pool globally—especially among women—is one of the most important means to reducing inequality and ensuring more shared economic growth. To this end, in 2008 the firm launched the 10,000 Women initiative, a five-year program with two primary goals:

• to increase the number of underserved women receiving business and management education
• to improve the quality and capacity of business and management education around the world

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