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Harvard University's $12 billion man doesn't wear a tie, takes the subway to work, and eats his lunch in the cafeteria on the fourth floor of the Federal Reserve Building. Jack Meyer is a person of few pretensions, but strong beliefs.
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Technology executives dominated the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of 400 richest Americans this year with Microsoft Co-Founder and Chairman Bill Gates retaining his place at the top of the annual list for the 14th time. According to Forbes, Gates is worth $59 billion.
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By Kevin Crowley Google Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, above, started work on what would become the world's largest search engine in 1996 as part of their PhD projects.
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.
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Two top portfolio managers at Harvard Management Company each earned more than $25 million in fiscal 2004 for having delivered one of the best returns among all university endowments in the country.
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Diseased one-upmanship The Bill Gates-Steve Jobs rivalry may have cooled, but the Microsoft Chairman is still going to toe-to-toe with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. A year after Ellison backed out of his promise to fund a multi-million dollar public health institute at Harvard University, Gates has revived the project at the University of Washington.â¦
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the investment company run by billionaire Warren Buffett, named another billionaire, Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates, as a director.
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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When it comes to hatching new biotechnology ideas, who's number one? It's Harvard. No wait, it's MIT.
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The world's richest man got a raise last year. Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, earned &#36;901,667 in Microsoft's 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from a year ago.
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The Man Group, the largest publicly traded hedge fund in the world, said it would pay Â£13.8 million ($27 million) to set up a research institute at Oxford University. The funds, to be paid over five years, will create the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and endow a professorship. The initiative is a way for Man, which uses mathematical models to make investments, to find mathematicians, who have become increasingly scarce as students planning careers in hedge funds study business instead.
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Forbes Magazine is releasing the list of the 400 richest Americans. No surprise, Microsoft founder Bill Gates tops the list. He`s worth a whopping $49 billion.
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Microsoft founder spoke to Harvard audience on global poverty and disease, and advancing ideas on how to encourage more people to get involved.
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In early October, two dozen Boston-area venture capitalists paid $3,500 each to take a weeklong excursion to India. They saw three cities in seven days, met with entrepreneurs and chief executives, and had a private sitting with the president of India.
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Mr. Anthony was a Harvard Business School professor and author who helped make the numbers-crunching of accountants more comprehensible to business executives.
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Swiss drug giant Novartis SA said yesterday it is spending $4 million to fund scientists performing diabetes research at Harvard University, the Massachusetts
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Microsoft Chair Bill Gates has contributed $400,000 to the campaign to support a California initiative that would provide the state with nearly $3 billion in funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports (Elias, AP