Douglas Orane, Chairman & CEO of GraceKennedy Limited, was presented with the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Caribbean Clubs of the Harvard Business School and Wharton School for ‘service and dedication’ to Jamaica at the fifth annual Caribbean MBA Conference. Mr. Orane was the guest speaker at the luncheon session of the conference held at the Hilton Kingston Hotel on Wednesday, January 3.  

The Caribbean MBA Conference is an annual event organized by the joint MBA Caribbean Student Clubs of the Harvard Business School and Wharton School. The Conference exposes top MBA candidates to the employment and investment opportunities available in the Caribbean. 

Chairman & CEO Douglas Orane receiving the Caribbean Business Clubs of Harvard Business School and The Wharton School Distinquished Alumni Award from Clint Lawrence (left), Conference Co-chair of the 5th Annual Caribbean MBA Conference .   Mr. Orane, a past student of Harvard Business School, was recognised at the conference for his service and dedication to the Jamaican Community. About 70 students and alumni of the Harvard Business School Caribbean Business Club and The Wharton's Caribbean Business Initiative Club  participated in the conference held at the Hilton Hotel in Kingston from January 3 to 7.

Since students and alumni from the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania organized the first annual Caribbean MBA conference four years ago, there have been some important outcomes from the forum. Among the most notable were the collaboration which saw an HBS team of four students and one faculty member working with NCB's management team to begin development of a strategy for regional expansion of various banking services; work by a slightly smaller team from Harvard in helping Guardian Holdings establish that company's private equity energy fund in Trinidad and Tobago; and the volunteer work done by a Wharton 2005 MBA graduate for H.O.P.E. – a micro-credit lending NGO in Trinidad and Tobago.
 

Posted: Janauary 16, 2007