You Searched For "robert f smith" and got 20 results
Sort By:
2 mins read
The billionaire who dished out $34 million to pay off student loans for an entire college class says America's student loan system is a 'catastrophe'
Student-loan debt in the United States is at an all-time high. As a result of their debt, millennia…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
3 mins read
Trump's picks for his 'National Garden of American Heroes' include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kobe Bryant, and a quiz-show host
Trump picked a diverse and curious selection of famous Americans for his proposed National Garden o…
Thomas Colson
3 mins read
A 77-year-old Scottish oil tycoon used his time on stage at a high-profile NYC philanthropy event to reprimand American billionaires for failing to donate money to countries outside the US
Wood's criticism aside, a handful of prominent American billionaires have made international work a…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
2 mins read
Dick Parsons, one of America's first Black CEOs, says Georgia's 'bone-headed' new voting law is a 'bald-faced' attempt to suppress Black voters
Dick Parsons, former CEO of Time Warner and CBS, is one of 72 Black corporate leaders calling on US…
Kate Duffy
6 mins read
A billionaire agreed to pay off my student loans in full. Here's what it was like - and how I plan to pay it forward.
Now with the blessing of this gift and no longer having to worry about student loans, I can now sta…
Elijah Dormeus
2 mins read
More than 70 top Black business leaders are reportedly urging US companies to fight against Republican voting laws
Black business executives across America claim the new voting bill that was passed in Georgia could…
Kate Duffy
3 mins read
A billionaire's vow to pay Morehouse graduates' loans isn't a surprise move, it's just the newest trend in the student-debt crisis
While the rich have donated money to universities for decades, they began using their money to addr…
Allana Akhtar
3 mins read
Cisco is giving HBCUs $150 million to lessen student debt and modernize technology
The Student Freedom Initiative announced a $50 million investment from Cisco to help students atten…
Ayelet Sheffey
2 mins read
Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison just dropped $80 million on a Palm Beach mansion, 4 months after he said he'd moved to Hawaii
The Oracle cofounder and executive chairman told his employees in December that he'd moved to Lanai…
Katie Warren
2 mins read
How to get hired at Blackstone
The top finance stories for October 20, including the latest news on the best advice for getting hi…
Dan DeFrancesco
2 mins read
The richest man in Hong Kong just pledged to cover 5 years of tuition for an entire college class, and it's going to cost him $14.4 million a year to do it
Sometimes called "Superman," the 90-year-old billionaire has a net worth of $30.4 billion, accordin…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
2 mins read
Killer Mike's majority Black and Latin-American owned online bank already has 'tens of thousands' on the waiting list
Greenwood is a virtual banking platform aiming to fill the gaps in how "the current financial syste…
Inyoung Choi
5 mins read
10 Things in Politics: Matt Gaetz and Fox News broke up
And Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ripped into the NCAA.
Oma Seddiq,Jordan Parker Erb
4 mins read
Fans are divided in praise and scorn after listening to Tom Cruise's raging COVID-19 rant at staff
Some fans said Tom Cruise seemed to be channeling his "Tropic Thunder" character, Les Grossman, whi…
Jacob Sarkisian
3 mins read
Reliance Jio’s 2.23% stake sale to Vista means its raised $7.95 billion in under three weeks
As with Silver Lake, Vista’s investment is at a higher premium than Fa…
1 min read
The 15 biggest private donations to universities by the ultra rich
The Chronicle of Higher Education, which tracks major donations to higher education after 1967, upd…
Allana Akhtar
3 mins read
A Palm Beach mansion on a plot of land that Trump once owned is about to sell for $140 million, and it could shatter the area's real-estate record
Trump sold the land in 2008 to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million as part of a l…
Katie Warren
9 mins read
NBA POWER RANKINGS: Where every team stands heading into the season
After a shortened offseason, NBA training camps and preseason are here, and there's no team that lo…
Scott Davis
4 mins read
Netflix's 'The Irishman' is a monumental movie that only Martin Scorsese could attempt - and pull off
De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci give fantastic performances, especially De Niro's work of playing a char…
Jason Guerrasio
2 mins read
A Detroit university just agreed to provide city high school grads free tuition - and it's pointing to a nationwide trend toward lessening the burden of college costs
Michigan ranks ninth for how much residents are burdened with student loan debt, and the state's av…