02/19/2014
How hedge-fund mogul Tom Steyer is using his checkbook to punish climate-change deniers, persuade Obama to halt the Keystone XL pipeline, and try to save the planet.
02/19/2014
The former chief executives of two high-profile German companies, Deutsche Bank AG and Siemens AG, have signed on to run the holding company of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
02/18/2014
As Businessweek Bloomberg writes, "Giving is up since the financial crisis. But while the stock market has made a complete recovery, top-50 philanthropy has clearly not."
02/17/2014
Ben Goldsmith, son of the late billionaire financier Sir James, has lured a cast of blue-chip investors and prominent business families into a €250m green fund to back technology companies.
02/17/2014
Frenchman Sidney Gavignet and team on EFG Bank sailed an impressive, tactical 60-nautical mile sprint from Abu Dhabi to Dubai, to win leg three.
02/14/2014
Negotiating a stock swap, according to documents submitted late on Wednesday to the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
02/12/2014
John Jahr slowly hitches up his pants, runs his fingers through his swept-back graying hair and gently crouches down, beckoning a curling stone toward him.
02/11/2014
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.