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Investing in Pigs and Kidneys: Building a $100 Billion Empire and Revolutionizing Organ Transplants

Investing Caffeine

Finished her PhD at The London School of Medicine (Barts) Practiced law at the Covington & Burling law firm representing the television broadcasting industry before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Hired by NASA to seek approval from the FCC for NASA systems used to track and relay satellite data.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

When you compare it to law, to medicine, to — RITHOLTZ: Centuries, right. WEINSTEIN: Okay, so medicine, law, consulting, those industries have now over 50% women. We love, but at the end of the day, They have a fiduciary duty to their LPs to hire the best person. Business school when I went was 20 something percent.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

It had been prevented, had been barred from that before because of this fiduciary duty idea and also because of the opacity of these instruments. But the doctors that I have spoken to in emergency medicine say that’s absolutely not the case. Some of these, the Blackstone BREIT is a perfect example of that.

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