Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO, Brett Hickey, sits down with his former Harvard Business School professor, Robert Steven Kaplan, to discuss tips for businesses and investors in an uncertain economic environment where both Hickey and Kaplan believe there is a reasonable probability of a recession. “The main advice I’d give to companies and investors is make sure you have good financial flexibility. If you’re a business, don’t get yourself overleveraged,” said Kaplan, former President and CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Senior Associate Dean and the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions at Goldman Sachs, Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee at Google and Interim CEO for Harvard University Endowment, the largest endowment in the world with ~$50 bn AUM as of the 2023 fiscal year.

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