Leadership in the Digital Age
Welcome to Leadership in the Digital Age with Professor Vijay Gurbaxani, director of the Center for Digital Transformation at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. Join us for thought provoking conversations with executives on the forefront of digital transformation.
Leadership in the Digital Age
Digital Transformation: A Private Equity Perspective
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Center for Digital Transformation
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Season 2
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Episode 7
Season 2, Episode 7 - Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), a fund managing more than $450 billion, adopts a long-term perspective in its investment strategy. CPPIB explicitly accounts for the potential of digital disruption in evaluating its acquisition targets and emphasizes digital transformation in its portfolio companies. The company has undertaken several initiatives to transform from a deal-execution company to a software company by putting technology and data at the core of everything they do. In a conversation with Vijay Gurbaxani, Michael Zawalsky, Principal, CPPIB and Jim Walsh, CTO of GlobalLogic, discuss how they are partnering to achieve CPPIB’s vision.