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Carla Harris CNR 105th Commencement Speaker

THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE TO CONFER 1,000 DEGREES AT 105th COMMENCEMENT   Carla Harris CNR 105th Commencement Speaker   On May 19, 2012, The College of New Rochelle (CNR) will celebrate its 105th Commencement as it graduates the Class of 2012. The College will award approximately 1,000 baccalaureate and master’s degrees during commencement exercises on Saturday, May 19, 2012, 11:00 a.m. at Radio City Music Hall.  Carla Harris, Managing Director, Emerging Manager Platform, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, will give the Commencement address. This year at Commencement the College will confer honorary degrees on three distinguished recipients: Carla Harris; Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed musician; Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, Permanent Observer of The Holy See to the United Nations. HONORARY DEGREES: Carla Harris, Managing Director, Emerging Manager Platform, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, began her career in 1987 with Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department. She headed Morgan Stanley’s equity capital markets for the consumer and retail industries and was responsible for Equity Private Placements. She received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in economics from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. Ms. Harris has been selected by Fortune magazine as one of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America” and by Essence Magazine as one of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World” among other national magazine recognitions. She is the bestselling author ofExpect to Win. Also an accomplished singer, she has recorded three albums, Carla’s First Christmas, a CD of gospel music entitled Joy is Waiting,  and her most recent CD, Unceasing Praise. She is the Chair of the Board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and sits on the boards of the Food Bank for New York City, The Toigo Foundation, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), A Better Chance, The Apollo Theatre Foundation, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and Xavier University. Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, and educator will play a short musical selection in addition to receiving an honorary degree. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, he began studying the trumpet seriously at age 12 and two years later he was invited to perform the Haydn Trumpet Concerto with the New Orleans Philharmonic. His prominent position in American culture was solidified in 1997 when he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his work, Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has served as the arts organization’s artistic director as well as music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since its inception. Among his many honors and achievements, in 2001 the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan proclaimed Mr. Marsalis an international ambassador of goodwill. He has also received a citation from the United States House of Representatives for his outstanding contribution to the arts. He also composed All Rise for big band, gospel choir, and symphony orchestra, which was performed by the New York Philharmonic orchestra under Kurt Mazur, the Morgan State University Choir, and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in 1999. In 2009 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra premiered his composition, Blues Symphony, and in the next year the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra premiered Swing Symphony with major orchestras signing on to perform these in the future. Just after Hurricane Katrina he organized the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Concert, raising over three million dollars for musicians and cultural organizations impacted by the hurricane.  He assumed a leadership role on the Bring Back New Orleans Cultural Commission.  He has donated his time and talents for many other non-profit organizations including My Sister’s Place (a battered women’s shelter), Graham Windham (a shelter for homeless children), the Children’s Defense Fund, Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, Food For All Seasons and Very Special Arts, which provides experiences in the arts for disabled individuals. Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, Permanent Observer of The Holy See to the United Nations, will offer the invocation and benediction at Commencement and receive an honorary degree. Born in Bolghatty, India, Archbishop Chullikatt was ordained in 1978 and completed his Doctorate in Canon Law in 1988. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in the same year and was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq and Jordan in 2006 and was appointed Permanent Observer to the UN in 2009. In his career, Archbishop Chullikatt has also served at the Apostolic Nunciatures in Honduras, to various countries of southern Africa, and the Philippines, at the Mission to the United Nations in New York, and at the Secretariat of State in the Vatican. He is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Latin. The Archbishop is also President of the Path to Peace Foundation, which was established in 1991 for the purpose of spreading the message of peace. The Foundation sponsors conferences, panel discussions, lectures, and seminars, including an annual Catholic Social Justice seminar for college students, attended by students from The College of New Rochelle, to study the social teachings of the Church and to promote initiatives of a cultural nature which touch on the Christian heritage of art, music, and the humanities.   #       #       # The first Catholic college for women in New York State, The College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline Order. Today, it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and three schools which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for adult learners), the School of Nursing and the Graduate School. The main campus of the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles north of New York City. The College maintains five other campus locations in New York City. Visit the College’s website at www.cnr.edu.

Women’s Bond Club Honors Carla Harris & Kay Koplovitz of USA Network

Women’s Bond Club Honors Carla Harris of Morgan Stanley and Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Network

33 Rising Stars from across the financial industry also to be recognized at the 19thAnnual Merit Award Dinner, hosted by NYSE Euronext.
NEW YORK, April 24, 2012 /BusinessWire/ — The Women’s Bond Club, the first organization in New York to focus on women in finance, today announced that Morgan Stanley Managing Director Carla Harris and Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Network will  receive the organization’s two most prestigious awards at its annual dinner event on April 30, 2012 at Cipriani Wall Street.

Ms. Carla Harris will receive the Merit Award, presented to a senior leader for her career accomplishments in financial services. Harris is a Managing Director and heads the Emerging Manager Platform at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In her role, Harris provides investment advice to corporations, public pension plans, foundations and endowments. She formerly headed the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries at Morgan Stanley, and was responsible for equity private placements. Ms. Harris began her career with Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions department in 1987.  For more than a decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed transactions such as the initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Redback, as well as the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive – among many others.

Ms. Harris lives the Women’s Bond Club motto of ‘lead, learn and return’ in all that she does. She is the author of Expect to Win: 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace and often serves as a guest speaker inspiring others to believe in the power of their dreams and achieve success. She is the Chair of the Board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and sits on the boards of the Food Bank for NYC, The Executive Leadership Council, The Toigo Foundation, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, A Better Chance, Inc., The Apollo Theatre Foundation, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Xavier University, and the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health.  She received an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in economics from Harvard University.

Ms. Kay Koplovitz will receive the Isabel Benham Award, presented to a woman who has made a significant contribution to the greater community of women. This recognition spotlights Ms. Koplovitz for her commitment to women entrepreneurs. Kay Koplovitz is the Founder of USA Network and the SciFi Channel, Chairman and CEO of Koplovitz and Company and Chairman and Co-Founder of Springboard Enterprises. Springboard Enterprises is a national organization that fosters venture capital investments in women-led high growth companies. Companies selected and presented by Springboard have raised over $5.5 Billion. Ms. Koplovitz is also co-founder of Boldcap Ventures, an early stage fund focused on media, technology and life sciences.  Amongst her very many accomplishments, Ms. Koplovitz was also presidentially appointed as Chair of National Women’s Business Council from 1998-2001, and she authored, “Bold Women, Big Ideas” to inspire women entrepreneurs to create wealth through equity. Kay Koplovitz presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Liz Claiborne Inc. and is a board member of CA Technologies and ION Media. Previously, she has served on the boards of Instinet, Oracle Nabisco, General Re and Sun New Media. She serves as trustee of the The Paley Center for Media as well as Babson College and The University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Letters & Science.

Duncan L. Niederauer, Chief Executive Officer of NYSE Euronext (NYX), will serve as the keynote speaker for the Award Dinner event, which will also recognize the future of women in finance with the presentation of the Women’s Bond Club Rising Stars Awards to 33 emerging leaders in the financial services industry.

These women and their firms are:

Accenture
Amanda Nelson
AXA Equitable
Maisha O’Neal
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Julie Hong
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Kristine Louis Reynal
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jing Shih
Barclays
Ashley Higgins
Bloomberg
Anna Karwowska
BNY Mellon
Mirela Cabej
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Christine Ballance
CAPCO
Michelle Stickels
Citi Group
Priya Rajani
Commerzbank AG
Shannon Buckley
Credit Suisse
Meha Jain
Credit Suisse IT
Megan Hamilton
Deloitte Consulting
Karmen Ehman
Ernst & Young LLP
Courtney Lazzari
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Katie Larson
IBM
Amy Meckes
ICAP
Nita Patel
Invesco
Christine Chung
Jefferies
Shabari Nayak
Morgan Stanley
Stacie Selinger
MphasiS
Aarti Gokhale
NasdaqOMX
Rebecca Cameron
Nomura Securities International, Inc.
Alexis Knopp
NYSE Euronext
Reagan Anderson
PIMCO
Naila Makhdumi
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Christine Cataldo
RBS Securities Inc.
Casey Spezznao
S&P Capital IQ
Louisa Pritchett
Standard & Poor’s
Ana Lai
SunGard Data Systems
Renate Kenney
Thomson Reuters
Aileen Brown

Established in 1921, the Women’s Bond is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional development and networking of women in financial services.  The Women’s Bond Club prides itself on being more than a network; it is a vital community of experienced women across financial services who share a common mission, “to advance women’s leadership, grow our intellectual capital, and return worth to our companies, communities and upcoming generations.” These goals are accomplished by sponsoring events and community service activities and by developing relationships with corporate sponsors and other not-for-profit institutions that support women.  Key to its mission is the scholarship program for young women enrolled in undergraduate university programs focused on business.  The Women’s Bond Club membership reflects buy-side and sell-side across financial services, and a cross-section of executive management, consulting and technology functions.  For more information on the Women’s Bond Club, please visit www.womensbondclub.com.

Proceeds from the annual Merit Award Dinner go to the Women’s Bond Club and its many charitable giving programs which focus on assisting in college preparedness for girls interested in careers in business and finance and the WBC College Scholarship Program.

For additional information on the Women’s Bond Club Merit Award Dinner, please contact Rachel Tepp, 646-336-6800, ext. 105; rachel@sequence-events.com of Morgan Stanley and Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Network

Morgan Stanley’s Harris to Address JU Graduates

ccomplished Investment Banker, Gospel Singer and Author to Deliver Keynote

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville University will bestow degrees on nearly 700 students at the annual commencement ceremonies on Saturday, April 30, 2011. Carla A. Harris, managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, will be the keynote speaker. Commencement will begin at 9:30 a.m. on the Science Green, behind the Howard Building in the heart of JU’s campus.

A Jacksonville native and a force on Wall Street for more than 20 years, Harris is the head of the firm’s Emerging Manager Program and also provides investment advice to corporations, public pension plans, foundations and endowments. She was previously responsible for the structuring, marketing and execution of public and private equity financings and has industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial and healthcare sectors.

The author of “Expect to Win: 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace,” Harris has been named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America” and to Fortune’s “The Most Influential List” 2005, to Black Enterprise Magazine’s “Top 50 African Americans on Wall Street,” to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World,” Ebony’s list of “15 Corporate Women at the Top,” The Network Journal’s2005 list of “25 Most Outstanding Women in Business” and was named “Woman of the Year 2004# by the Harvard University Black Men’s Forum.

In addition to being an author and having a successful career in business, she is also an accomplished gospel singer who released her third album, “Unceasing Praise” in February. She has performed three sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and regularly performs in the New York area and is a member and soloist in the popular Mark Howell Singers and St. Charles Borromeo Gospelite Choir in Harlem, N.Y.

Harris received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, Second Year Honors and an Artium Baccalaureus in economics from Harvard University, magna cum laude. The University will present her with an honorary doctorate in business commerce in recognition of her outstanding career.

The University will also honor Ash Verlander in memoriam with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Verlander, a long-time University trustee and civic leader, passed away in 2009.  He devoted much of his time to fundraising for the University and also served as president of the Gator Bowl Association.

Graduates who have achieved the highest cumulative grade point average will be honored with the prestigious Fred B. Noble Medal for Scholarship. The University will also present two prominent service awards – the Presidential Award for Leadership and the Presidential Award for Service.

June 15th: The Inner Circle

The Inner Circle

A message to all members of The Inner Circle

This year’s The Mentor Factor professional development conference, being held June 15 in NYC, has a powerful lineup. Speakers include:

Carla A. Harris Managing Director

Morgan Stanley Investment Management

#18 on The 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance 2009

Stacy Bash-Polley

Managing Director & Co-Head of Fixed Income Sales in the Americas

Goldman Sachs

#2 on The 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance 2009

Cara Heiden

Co-President, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

Wells Fargo & Co.

#12 on The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking 2009

Karen Peetz

Senior Executive Vice President, CEO Financial Markets & Treasury Services

BNY Mellon

#2 on The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking 2009

And, new this year, a panel of senior executive men on a panel to tell women everything we need to know from THEIR perspective.

View the entire agenda here:

http://www.25mpwib.com/TMF_Agenda.html

Members of The Inner Circle receive a special discount by using the registration code SAVE200.

Interested in bringing a team of women from your institution? Contact Melissa Buono at 212-803-6067 or Melissa.buono@sourcemedia.com.

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Rebecca Sausner

Editor

The Inner Circle

Carla on WPIX

We cannot pull the video but check out the link, with accompanying transcript! Once again Carla Harris gives the viewers more than they bargained for… knowledge and well of experience

http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp

Carla is a Black Enterprises’ Powerful Women

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With Morgan Stanley since 1987, Harris’ recent focus within the firm has been the strategic client group at MS Investment Management. In that role, the Wall Street veteran provides investment advice to corporations, public pension plans, foundations, and endowments. The company’s emerging managers’ platform is also under her leadership.

Carla Harris at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca

In a time of economic and job insecurity, people need to prove that they are essential and indispensable to their company. According to Carla A. Harris, a 20-year veteran of Wall Street, knowledge and diligence simply aren’t enough to successfully climb the corporate ladder in today’s competitive work environment. Sharing advice found in her book, Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet, Harris describes her ascent to the top and offers strategies that ensure career advancement and success in any industry.

	Date & Time: Wed, Feb 3, 2010, 12:00pm-1:00pm
	Location: 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street Directions
	Price: $16.00

Carla Harris at Manhattan Community College

Join Carla at the  International Association of Administrative Professionals, held at the Continuing Education of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, 25 Broadway, 8^th Floor. NY, NY 10:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.

Carla Harris, featured author at the Austin, TX Bookfair

June 27, 2009

Join Carla at the Austin, Texas bookfair on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Carla will be speaking at a breakfast in the Library at 10 a.m and on hand for the rest of the day to autograph copies of Expect To Win.

Carver Library
1161 Angelina Street
Austin, TX
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

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