Eli Broad: To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking why not?
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Roski also has good working relationships with Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and annuity billionaire Eli Broad.
The top performer in our Index was led by KB Home ( Eli Broad) with a return of 115%.
Eli Broad today is an astute buyer of contemporary art and is in love with Roy Lichtenstein's iconic pop-art pieces.
"That beats Moore's Law hands down, " says Eric Lander, head of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, funded by billionaire Eli Broad.
Eli Broad is a renowned business leader who built two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up over a five-decade career in business.
Some billionaires make their own collections available to the interested, such as home building and insurance tycoon Eli Broad 's Broad Art Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif.
Luke compares Lopez's campaign with the one waged in the 1980s by multibillionaire Eli Broad, another supercollector, who popularized contemporary American art by acquiring scads of it.
The life-and-death question is whether these efforts and the largesse of Eli Broad and other patrons of science will be enough to let the U.S. lead the stem-cell revolution.
There was talk that moguls such as David Geffen and Eli Broad might buy one of its papers, the Los Angeles Times, and run it through a non-profit trust.
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When he graduated from Michigan State University in 1954, Eli Broad recalls the East Lansing campus was focused on agriculture and engineering and set in a sleepy farming community.
Already a flood of money from states and private individuals--including billionaires Eli Broad and Ray Dolby--is increasingly allowing the work to move forward despite severe limits on U.S. government funding.
If Eli Broad and Ron Burkle were to get control of Los Angeles Times, they have talked about the notion of running it a bit more like a public trust.
He now stands shoulder to shoulder on that list with the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Eli Broad, George Kaiser, Michael Bloomberg, George Lucas and others (see slideshow below).
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Earlier this year, billionaire philanthropist and entrepreneur Eli Broad published The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking, and in this interview, we discussed the very secrets to his success.
Today, Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, are devoted to philanthropy as founders of The Broad Foundations, which they established to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts.
As the Tribune's self-imposed deadline for bids approached Wednesday night, reports circulated that supermarket mogul Ronald W. Burkle, along with partner Eli Broad, had offered to recapitalize the company in a deal that would give him about one-third ownership.
Billionaire collectors such as KB Home founder Eli Broad, hedge fund honcho Steven A. Cohen and Stephen A. Wynn of Wynn Resorts have spent millions creating and donating collections, driving up prices and breaking price records.
Teasley said he last ran into Booker at an education conference a few years ago, when the mayor was trying to raise funds from the educational charities of Bill and Melinda Gates, Eli Broad and the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame.
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These two billionaires - these magnates in Los Angeles, Ron Burkle who made a ton of money with grocery stores, and Eli Broad who's a huge developer in Los Angeles - has come forward with their own offer, interestingly at below market value.
Extending about a mile and a half along the Pacific Coast Highway, the tony enclave is comprised of 70 lots crammed with beach houses belonging to billionaires like David Geffen, Haim Saban, Eli Broad, Paul Allen and Gerald Schwartz.
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Tribune 's Los Angeles Times reported in November that former Editor John Carroll had courted billionaire developer-philanthropist Eli Broad to consider buying that newspaper in the hopes of possibly putting it in the hands of a foundation modeled after the Poynter Institute.
Ms. Reist mentioned the California collectors Eli and Edythe Broad, but said she couldn't divulge other names.
The new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, which opens on campus this weekend, is deliberately designed to put that rural image to rest.
Eric S. Lander of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard topped the list of most influential researchers for the second year straight, recording 14 Hot Papers in 2011.
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