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...didn't become one of the world's richest men, and by far its biggest steel baron, by shying away from controversy. Even so, the Indian-born businessman Lakshmi Mittal says he was taken aback by the fury that greeted his announcement in late January that he was bidding to buy European steelmaker Arcelor, formed in 2002 out of what was left of the French, Luxembourgian, Belgian and Spanish steel industries. "We really didn't expect such a violent reaction," Mittal told Time. "A lot of people were obviously not happy at all." [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...volunteer, Luke M. Messac ’08 puts it, “I first started volunteering because seeing homeless people everywhere just really struck me. We are the richest non-profit organization aside from the Catholic Church, and it is extremely troubling to me that such poverty exists right next door...
...Proportion of the world's wealth possessed by the richest 1% of the population, according to a recent U.N. study 1% Proportion of global wealth possessed by the poorest half of the world's population
With a $32 billion endowment that tops even that of the world’s richest university, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is set to spend itself out of existence, possibly before the end of the 21st century. The Gates Foundation will spend all of its resources within 50 years of the death of the last member of the board of trustees, consisting of Bill Gates, 51, Melinda French Gates, 42, and Warren E. Buffett, 76, the Foundation announced last week. The foundation, whose endowment will be $63 billion—more than double Harvard?...
...don’t discriminate as a organization, and we want to garner women with whatever knowledge we can.” The talk was the latest in a series of events with prominent entrepreneurs, including an October trip to Nebraska to meet America’s second richest person, Warren Buffett, and a meeting last April with NBC Universal CEO Jeffrey A. Zucker ’86, who is also a former Crimson president. —Nicholas A. Ciani can be reached at nciani@fas.harvard.edu...