Noteworthy alumnus: Henry Kravis, the king of leveraged buyouts and founder of the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
The present-day collectors who intrigue Mr Stourton are wealthy American businessmen such as Henry Kravis and Ronald Lauder.
As Everest's chairman, he controls 27 companies and is in the same league as Henry Kravis and Thomas Lee.
In September, KKR cofounders Henry Kravis and George Roberts injected cash into KKR Financial to try to stabilize the company.
Arnault, Niarchos and Lau moved into the top 10 this year, replacing Ronald Lauder, Carlos Slim and Henry Kravis.
On behalf of the Columbia Business School community, I thank Henry Kravis for his generosity and dedication to the School.
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Among the backers of his firm are Henry Kravis and George Roberts, the men behind the famously canny investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
We've read that Henry Kravis was personally not upset about it.
But in the meantime, investors should think like Henry Kravis.
Among wealthy contributors to his quest for the White House are leveraged buyout artist Henry Kravis and Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football team.
Billionaire Henry Kravis built his fortune buying businesses, getting them into fighting shape, and then selling them, but just showing up with a big check is not the secret to his success.
Private-equity tycoon and New York gadabout Henry Kravis resigned from the board of personal-products maker Gillette (nyse: G - news - people) to focus on his own business interests.
The FinTech Innovation Lab is operated through the Partnership for New York City Fund which was set up through 200 CEOs 15 years ago at the prompting of Henry Kravis.
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The movement from diversification to focus has been has been gaining momentum for two decades, ever since the days when corporate raiders such as Henry Kravis and Carl Icahn began buying up and dismantling the conglomerates of the '60s and '70s.
It can be argued, of course, that this shows that the rich can buy amenities the poor cannot and, indeed, Paulson is only one of many wealthy members of the Conservancy board (which includes Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Thomas Kempner of Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Michael Steinberg of Steinberg Asset Management).
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