The Future of Capitalism
The David Network and the Harvard College Concord Institute are excited to bring together four special guests with unique perspectives on the question: "What is the Future of Capitalism?"
Dan Rasmussen is the founder and managing partner of Verdad Advisers, an investment firm with over $1 billion in assets under management across multiple asset classes. He is the author of The Humble Investor (2025) and American Uprising(2011), and his investment research has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and Institutional Investor. He serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee at Plymouth Rock Companies and deputy chair of the Investment Committee for the Trustees of Donations of the Episcopal Church. Prior to founding Verdad, he worked at Bain Capital Private Equity and Bridgewater Associates. He is a 2009 graduate of Harvard College.
Jennifer Schubert-Akin is Chairman and CEO of The Steamboat Institute, which she co-founded in 2008 and has built into a nationally recognized leader in advancing conservative thought and policy. She serves on the Advisory Boards for the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at CU Boulder and the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise & Markets at the University of Maryland. An accomplished endurance athlete, she has completed 32 consecutive Boston Marathons, three Leadville Trail 100-mile races, and the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, raising over $294,000 for the National MS Society along the way.
Will Franklin is the founder of Liberty FortyFive, a family-office investment platform focused on investing, strategic advisory work, and policy engagement. After retiring from Lime Rock Partners in 2024, he now concentrates on business leadership, public policy, and philanthropic initiatives that promote economic opportunity, individual liberty, and long-term prosperity. He served as a Managing Director and Investment Committee Member of Lime Rock Partners, a leading energy-focused private equity firm, where he helped deploy capital across the global energy sector and served on the boards of numerous private and public companies. Most recently, he served as Chairman of Shelf Drilling, an international offshore drilling contractor operating across multiple continents.
Carine Hajjar is an opinion journalist and editorial board member of the Washington Post. She was awarded the Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism by The Fund for American Studies in 2022, during which she served as a fellow on The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board. She previously worked as a columnist and Editorial Board member at The Boston Globe. Her writing has also appeared in National Review, Fox News, Fox Business, and NewsNation. She is a 2021 graduate of Harvard College.