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The woman who built the Gates foundation
...educational reform, which led to a rebranding as the Gates Learning Foundation.By 2000, as Mr Gates allocated many more billions to philanthropy...Stonesifer helped the entity merge with the separate William H. Gates Foundation. Run by Mr Gates's father, it supported...
Dec 30 2008, By Andrew Jack, Financial Times
The foundation builder
...programmes, which led to a rebranding as the Gates Learning Foundation.By 2000, as Gates allocated many more billions to philanthropy...new premises and a merger with the separate William H. Gates Foundation. Run by Gates's father out of his...
Dec 16 2008, By Andrew Jack, FT.com site
The casual-trousered philanthropists
...Gates's philanthropy: his father, William H. Gates.Bill Gates Snr, a successful lawyer...son about what to support. The William H. Gates Foundation began in his basement...At the same time, he merged the William H. Gates Foundation with the Gates Learning...
Mar 10 2006, By Andrew Jack, FT.com site
Refreshingly contrarian
...member of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, taking 297th place in the latest rundown, trailing behind a certain William H. Gates III, as Forbes colourfully describes him.In his fourth book, Mr Fisher has broken down his investment philosophy into...
Jan 15 2007, By Steve Johnson, Financial Times
Microsoft comes of age with cash bonanza
...Gates Learning Foundation and William H. Gates Foundation, the Bill and Melinda...Since its inception in 1994 the William H. Gates Foundation and its successors...foundation, led by Mr Gates' father, William H Gates, Sr, and Patty Stonesifer, has...
Jul 21 2004, By Paul Taylor and Richard Waters, Financial Times
Pricing power varies at the factory gate
...costs. Some have been more successful than others".One such successful manufacturer is Andrew Cook, chairman of Sheffield-based William Cook Cast Products."It is impossible to carry the increases in metal, alloy, and energy prices on the magnitude we have faced...
Feb 09 2007, By William MacNamara, Financial Times
Victorious Kerry would replace intelligence chief
...tended to choose their own CIA directors. Robert Gates resigned after George H. W. Bush was defeated in 1992 and Mr Clinton appointed...election, but Ronald Reagan appointed his own man, William Casey. In the early years of the CIA, career officials...
Oct 23 2004, By James Harding in Columbus, Ohio, and Thomas Catan in,Washington, Financial Times
Victorious Kerry would sack head of US intelligence
...tended to choose their own CIA directors. Robert Gates resigned after George H. W. Bush was defeated in 1992 and Bill Clinton appointed...election, but Ronald Reagan appointed his own man, William Casey. In the early years of the CIA, career officials...
Oct 22 2004, By James Harding in Columbus, Ohio, and Thomas Catan in Washington, FT.com site
Perspectives: The six books that shaped my view of technology
...and an idiosyncratic six at that. I haven't even included William H Rodger's brilliant 1969 account of the rise of IBM, Think...more precisely the man at the heart of Microsoft, Bill Gates, is the principal subject of Accidental Empires, tellingly...
Sep 18 2007, By Alan Cane, FT.com site
Private equity's IPOs make sense
...available solution, although it is perhaps the most elegant. In 2006, a troika of 40-something partners at Boston-based Thomas H. Lee Partners staged what amounted to a palace coup and pushed out the eponymous Mr Lee. Then there is the case of Forstmann Little...
Jul 26 2007, By William Cohan, FT.com site
