Universities Look to Strengthen the Places They Call Home

U3 Advisors’ CEO Omar Blaik offers our perspective on universities and local communities in the New York Times article, “Universities Look to Strengthen the Places They Call Home” — “You really cannot thrive as an institution by starving the neighborhood around you and being so singularly focused on your own goals,” said Omar Blaik, a former vice president at the University of Pennsylvania, now the chief executive of the consulting firm U3 Advisors. “You advance your own goals in an enlightened self-interest way by advancing goals of the neighborhood and the city.”