As Americans ponder their year-end gifts, they should consider the charitable giving of some famous philanthropists like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and John D. MacArthur. All ...

What makes the best entrepreneurs successful? For some, it's patience and a reliance on feedback from close partners. For others, it's superior knowledge and perseverance. For almost all, it's being ...

In the Gilded Age, industrial magnates like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie dominated public life, while today, tech CEOs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos hold sway. Political corruption and ...

Andrew Carnegie stood at just 4 feet 10 inches tall, yet this Scottish immigrant reshaped American industry and philanthropy ...

A wonderful attraction for money had Abraham Flexner. For 30 years the fattest moneybags in the U. S. opened to his touch. He loosened up no mean part of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Eastman and Morgan ...

Wealth generates its own level of fascination. There are few people in the Western World today who aren’t aware of the billionaires Buffett, Gates and Musk, but back in the day, the same could be said ...

As has happened every summer for 15 years the Rockefeller Foundation, with John D. Rockefeller Jr. as chairman of the trustees and George E. Vincent as president, last week made annual report of the ...

New biographies by Scott Shane, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Douglas Brunt and Sung-Yoon Lee tell the stories of people working through, under or above different kinds of power. By John Knight Investors and ...

A Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) researcher’s expertise will play a key role in a project made possible by a $5.5 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to accelerate development ...

It’s all about mountain views, whether you’re hiking, cycling or enjoying a picnic in Grand Teton National Park. By Ruffin Prevost New biographies by Scott Shane, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Douglas Brunt ...