Eli Broad

The biggest contributors to that effort include Netflix chief Reed Hastings, Los Angeles billionaire and philanthropist Eli Broad and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Newsom continues to lead in the polls and fundraising. He reported raising $4.6 million this year, leading to a total haul of $24.9 ...

EAST LANSING - Hundreds of girls atop green yoga mats covered the court of Michigan State University's Breslin Center Saturday morning for the opening of the second day of this year's EmpowHER Leadership Retreat. Hosted by MSU Women's Basketball Coach Suzy Merchant, the annual event aims to ...

Malibu's Eli Broad, one of the most prolific and important modern art collectors around, is sharing his treasures with the world. His Broad Museum has drawn huge crowds since the day it opened. Currently on view and worth the drive is “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth.” It's billed as six decades ...

This week philanthropist Eli Broad contributed another $1 million to a pro-Villaraigosa charter-sponsored independent expenditure committee, bringing his total contribution to $2.5 million over the past two weeks. A day later, Michael Bloomberg donated $1.5 million to the same committee. Both are ...

An additional $1.5 million was kicked in by L.A. developer and philanthropist Eli Broad. They like Villaraigosa's history of championing charter schools. "It is a rather jaw-dropping amount of money," the race's front-runner, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, told me. "But these are the rules of engagement, and they're ...

Billionaire Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, stand for a photo amid Jeff Koons sculptures at "The Broad" museum in downtown Los Angeles. ... Los Angeles billionaire and philanthropist Eli Broad donated $1.5 million on Thursday to a pro-charter school group supporting Antonio Villaraigosa's candidacy for ...

It took two years and a substantial price cut, but Hollywood film producer Joel Silver finally secured a sale for his Carbon Beach mansion. The Die Hard and Lethal Weapon producer bought the compound for $14.3 million in 2003. It sits on a 1.5 mile stretch of Malibu beachfront that has been dubbed ...

Some folks pursuing MBAs now have a chance to save a lot of studying time. Michigan State University's business school will test a new plan to accept some students into its full-time MBA program — without taking a standardized test. The Eli Broad College of Business is trying out the strategy starting with ...

Philanthropist and businessman Eli Broad pledged $1 million to the cause, Deadline reported. In a statement he said, “This must stop. I'm personally donating $1 million to Everytown and joining the courageous students of Parkland and millions of Americans demanding commonsense solutions to end the ...

The Eli Broad College of Business will pilot an admissions initiative, targeting dynamic candidates with professional experience. For the first time, starting with the class of 2021, the Full-Time MBA will accept a select number of candidates without a standardized test score. "We will launch this pilot to give ...

Eli Broad, the philanthropist and billionaire businessman, also made a pledge to the gun-control movement. "I'm personally donating $1 million to Everytown and joining the courageous students of Parkland and millions of Americans demanding common-sense solutions to end the gun-violence crisis," he ...

East Lansing, MI — The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University was awarded $1 million from MSU Federal Credit Union in support of an expansion across Grand River Avenue that will provide increased access and research for the MSU Broad's 7,500 piece permanent collection.

The billionaire collector and philanthropist Eli Broad has turned out to be the buyer of Mark Bradford's monumental painting Helter Skelter I (2007), which set a record at Phillips last week in London when it sold for £8.7 million ($12 million). The work is now headed to The Broad Museum in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles museum founded by billionaire Eli Broad said it acquired Mark Bradford's "Helter Skelter I" -- the painting inspired by serial killer Charles Manson that retired tennis pro John McEnroe sold at auction last week. “We are proud to acquire Helter Skelter I, which is among the most significant ...

Asked about the Venice show when it debuted last year, Eli Broad, the philanthropist and museum founder, remarked that it was “kind of hokey.” Recently he called Mr. Hirst “an innovative artist who always moves in new directions.” The Broad would not comment on whether it had purchased any of the new ...

Many other billionaires support education reform efforts, including the families of homebuilder and insurance mogul Eli Broad, late Walmart founder Sam Walton and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Individually, their projects have differed. While Gates has favored small schools and teacher evaluation, ...

Move over, Eli Broad. While Broad long groused about Los Angeles being a "one-philanthropist city"—namely, him—he now has much more company, which explains his recent retirement from public life. When Broad first arrived in L.A. to expand his homebuilding company decades ago, the city's art and ...

Fallon is not the first celebrity to support the March for Our Lives: George and Amal Clooney, Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Eli Broad, and Oprah Winfrey have all donated money and/or pledged to attend. And it's not much of a mystery how the rest of late night feels ...

MSUFCU also gave grants to other areas at MSU, including the Wharton Center, WKAR, Media Sandbox in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Music, Science Gallery Lab Detroit, the Eli Broad ...

That is important now that the city's leading cultural philanthropist, Eli Broad, has announced his retirement from public life. Mr. Broad said he no longer feels so alone in support of the arts. “You're seeing more and more people getting involved philanthropically,” he said. Among the next cadre of patrons are ...

The fact that it hangs in this museum, founded by the billionaire entrpreneur Eli Broad, who owns an ungodly number of works by Jeff Koons, only goes to further establish Johns not so much as a virtuosic twentieth-century trickster but as a calculated master of his own legacy. Jasper Johns's Untitled (1975).

4TH UPDATE, 1:40 PM: Philanthropist and businessman Eli Broad today pledged $1 million toward the movement to end gun violence, joining a number of Hollywood heavyweights including Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, George and Amal Clooney, Jeffrey & Marilyn Katzenberg and ...

LOS ANGELES — Eli Broad, a billionaire who has been a dominant figure in this city's cultural, philanthropic, business and political world for almost 50 years, announced on Thursday that he is stepping down from public life, saying that it was “time to move on.” “I am retiring,” Mr. Broad, 84, said as he ...

Michigan State head women's basketball coach Suzy Merchant and the MSU Eli Broad College of Business are hosting the third annual EmpowHER Retreat Friday-Saturday, April 27-28 at the Breslin Center. The event on Friday will run from 6-9 p.m. and will conclude on Saturday from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m..

Sanjay Gupta is the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean of the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He joined the Broad College in 2007 as the Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor of Accounting and chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems.

Upon announcing his retirement from philanthropy last year, a satisfied Eli Broad told the New York Times, "Los Angeles is now the contemporary art capital of the world. We have emerged as one of the four major cultural capitals of the world, together with London, New York and Paris." But a vibrant ...

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Caltech trustee Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have pledged $5 million through The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to endow a professorial chair at Caltech. The chair will be named in honor of David Baltimore, Nobel laureate, Caltech President Emeritus, and the Robert ...