Royce Yudkoff Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Board of Trustees

New York, New York, June 4, 2026 — Following a unanimous vote, Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today during its quarterly board meeting that Royce Yudkoff has been named to its board of trustees. Yudkoff is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. He will serve a four-year term.

“On behalf of the entire board of trustees and staff, we are delighted to welcome Royce Yudkoff to Carnegie Corporation of New York,” said Janet L. Robinson, chair of the board of trustees. “Beyond his insights as a leader and educator, we have no doubt that his financial and business expertise will prove invaluable to our investment management committee as we work to ensure the longevity of our endowment.”

“Through generous support for education, health, and humanitarian causes, Royce has demonstrated his commitment to philanthropy,” said Dame Louise Richardson, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and past head of University of Oxford. “I am very much looking forward to calling upon his investment and entrepreneurial expertise as we seek to optimize our returns to support our mission of promoting peace, advancing education, and strengthening democracy.

At Harvard Business School, Yudkoff teaches courses that focus on how to acquire, finance, and operate smaller firms. Yudkoff is the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company, published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2017.

Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard Business School, Yudkoff cofounded Abry Partners in 1989. Abry is a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies in the communications, media, information, and business service industries. Since inception, the firm has completed over $90 billion in transactions. He has been a director of numerous private and public companies.

Read Yudkoff’s full bio here.