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Bio-IT World
Dec 2005/Jan 2006
Salvatore Salamone |
Gates, Clinton Address Global Health Summit The conference brought together leaders in business, government, medicine, public philanthropic groups, and the arts to address and develop solutions to the world's heath crises.   |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bill Gates' Plan to Better the World With what he calls "creative capitalism," Gates hopes to banish some of the world's toughest problems by encouraging a new system of business. |
InternetNews
February 6, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Gates Wants You Bitten by the Charity Bug This week's outrageous antics have a serious motive - to press for better healthcare for underdeveloped nations. |
BusinessWeek
January 29, 2007
Kerry Capell |
GlaxoSmithKline: Getting AIDS Drugs To More Sick People GlaxoSmithKline sells 90% of its vaccines, in volume terms, at not-for-profit prices to customers in the developing world. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Bennett & Randall |
AIDS Drugs Flow to the Third World Drugmakers, once blasted for their practices, are slashing prices and licensing AIDS drugs for free to nonprofits or local manufacturers in developing countries. |
BusinessWeek
May 19, 2011
Suzanna Andrews |
Gupta's Rolodex Once one of the world's most connected and trusted corporate insiders, former McKinsey head Rajat Gupta could count these notables among his colleagues. |
AFP eWire
August 4, 2010 |
40 U.S. Billionaires Accept Gates, Buffet Giving Challenge Forty billionaires have now signed on to Bill and Melinda Gates' and Warren Buffett's "Giving Pledge," promising to donate a majority of their fortunes to charity. |
Chemistry World
May 31, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Japanese pharma opens compound vaults Japanese pharmaceutical companies are opening up their libraries of experimental compound as part of a new partnership program. The initiative aims to find new drugs for malaria, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases. |
Fast Company
November 2002
Chuck Salter |
Richard Klausner Spends to Save Lives At the wealthiest foundation on the planet, a brilliant scientist is giving away Bill Gates's money in pursuit of a lofty goal: solving the world's most pressing health problems. |
Chemistry World
November 26, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Gates Foundation champions open access The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Washington, US, has adopted a new policy that requires free, unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research that the foundation funds |
Foundation News & Commentary
May/Jun 2005
Roger M. Williams |
"My God, I've Become An NGO" With that realization, drawing on his enormous well of global popularity, former President William J. Clinton established a foundation that's making its mark in the AIDS arena and beyond. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Kerry Capell |
Vaccinating The World's Poor GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals is betting it can combat Third World scourges -- and still make money. |
AFP eWire
June 26, 2006 |
Buffett to Give Wealth to Charity Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in the world, will gradually give away 85% of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to five foundations. |
AFP eWire
December 4, 2006 |
Slate Philanthropy Conference Focuses on Partnerships, Leadership A range of new ideas and viewpoints emerged at the recent Slate 60 Conference on Innovative Philanthropy, many of them focusing on the need for government-private sector partnerships, emerging technologies and an investment philosophy to tackle large-scale problems. |
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2004
Jay Greene |
Bill Gates: The Seer From Seattle His insights helped stimulate innovation in the fledgling PC industry. He was among the first to recognize companies and products would be created if a computer's operating system and other software programs were separated from the hardware. |
Salon.com
June 1, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
The AIDS-drug warrior Outspoken AIDS-drug activist Jamie Love says pharmaceutical companies must be forced to yield their patents to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Is he a visionary -- or a dangerous radical? |
Registered Rep.
August 12, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Learn the Business of Philanthropy to Keep Assets Advisors are too focused on the nuts and bolts of financial planning and tax strategies, and not looking at the larger picture of how charity is important to their clients. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2008 |
Gates Stumps For 'Creative Capitalism' Bill Gates discusses philanthropy in Switzerland speech; he argued that market forces should be used to address the needs of those left behind by advances in technology and health care. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
CES: Gates to Deliver His Final Vision After 13 years, Microsoft's Bill Gates prepares to give his last keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007 |
Is the Global Health System Broken Three points of view on how the global health system can be improved: Making Markets Work by Joe Cerrell... Finding a Unified Vision by Helen Gayle and J. Stephen Morrison... Targeting the Health MDGs by Tore Godal... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 3, 2007
Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: Vaccines for Everyone New vaccines can be good business and a huge boon to public health. But the challenge is to establish prices that ensure global access, and to bring necessary medications to third-world countries. |
AFP eWire
September 5, 2006 |
Conference on Innovative Philanthropy to Feature America's Top Donors Some of the United States' most generous and well-known donors will come together in November 2006 for the first-ever Slate 60 Conference on Innovative Philanthropy. |
Fast Company
September 2009
Dan Macsai |
Ranking the Stops on Bill Clinton's Conference Circuit President Bill Clinton was never the retiring kind. Post -- White House, he has attended many elite meetups -- and started his own. The fifth annual CGI meeting will be September 22 -- 25 in New York. We ranked it, for prestige and publicity, with three other stops on his circuit. |
Fast Company
May 2014
Danielle Sacks |
Chelsea Clinton Makes Her Move What has Chelsea Clinton been up to in her work with the Clinton Foundation? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2006
Kieran Hartsough |
Benchmarking AIDS Pharma is taking on the global AIDS crisis. But who has crafted the best approach? The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility defines best practices and matches major companies head-to-head. Grades are posted inside. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 28, 2005
Cynthia Churchwell |
Funding R&D for Neglected Diseases Research on vaccines for diseases that primarily affect low-income countries remains minimal---the risks are too high for developers. The book Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases suggests a solution. |
Bio-IT World
May 7, 2002
Davies & Levitt |
Bridge Over Troubled Waterford Project For a project that links some of the best institutions and minds in AIDS research in order to produce an effective vaccine that could save millions of lives, funding should be a nonissue. Unfortunately, that is not the case -- and the bio-IT community has to find a way to remedy this issue. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Katharine Gammon |
What We'll Miss About Bill Gates -- a Very Long Good-Bye. This month, Gates' last as a full-time Microsoft employee, it seems only right and proper to look back on Gates' storied career. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2004
Bill Mann |
Gates Joins Berkshire Board Taking Warren Buffett's late wife's seat, Bill Gates joins the Berkshire Hathaway board of directors. Here are some comedic ways things may change. |
Salon.com
May 18, 2000
Sabin Russell |
The dream and the coming disaster AIDS threatens to ravage the hopes of South Africa's young democracy. Don't expect leaders to get excited because a few companies cut the cost of HIV drugs. |
Smithsonian
November 2005 |
35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet: his foundation is reshaping the landscape of deadly and debilitating diseases in the developing world. |
Information Today
September 10, 2007 |
IFLA Receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announced the receipt of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries initiative. |
Salon.com
June 25, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
AIDS activists change their act On the eve of a United Nations conference, the once-militant ACT-UP revises its tactics and focus... |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Megan Williams |
African mothers: Save us, too AIDS activists say providing drugs to prevent HIV transmission to babies but not treating their mothers is unconscionable. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2010 |
First Tweeting, Bill Gates Now Gets His Own Site So what does the world's richest private person think about in his "spare" time? |
| AskMen.com |
Adventures In Circumcision The most powerful force against AIDS in Africa may be circumcision, a procedure that's easily done in the developed world. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2008
Rich Greifner |
The Death of the American Billionaire The tremendous performance of international stocks has led to a seismic shift in the composition of Forbes' list of the richest people in the world. |
Salon.com
May 1, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Amy and Goliath A first-year law student brought a giant pharmaceutical to its knees. But will her victory for South Africa's AIDS sufferers deprive the world of new medicines? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2005
Seth Berkley |
Backpage: Partnering for Vaccine Victories Public-private partnerships can help engage industry in AIDS vaccine research. Pharma and biotechnology companies should respond with the expertise that only they can offer. |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
O.K., Roll Up Your Sleeve New vaccines are arriving but the economics are still a challenge. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2009
Joanna Breitstein |
Vaccines for All The world is suffering. But just over the horizon is a new access equation that could speed innovative vaccines to where they're needed most. |
Chemistry World
May 19, 2015
Phillip Broadwith |
GSK commits to HIV research GlaxoSmithKline has reaffirmed its commitment to researching new drugs for HIV -- Aids, by partnering with the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, US. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2011 |
The Legacy of High Expectations Andrew Witty, Chairman & CEO, GlaxoSmithKline, believes the pharmaceutical industry will continue to make a significant contribution to society if it continues to improve the way it goes about its work. |
BusinessWeek
November 18, 2010
Jason Gale |
Bill Gates' Latest Challenge: Polio Bill Gates is brokering deals with drugmakers to make cheaper vaccines available. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2010
Mac Greer |
The Most Underrated Part of Warren Buffett's Success The most overrated, too. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2005
Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: Antivirals: Meeting a World of Need The international fight against AIDS requires drugs -- and policy. |
Salon.com
March 19, 2001
Ben Barber |
Fighting the plague The World Trade Organization steps into Africa's AIDS crisis, creating incentives for pharmaceutical companies to give some of their drugs away. |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Lewis Schiff |
Give It Away Today Philanthropists have gone public about why they give. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Gates Talks Tech, Health and Education Bill Gates emphasizes American schools as the way to stay competitive in a global economy. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2008
Sander A. Flaum |
Tapping the Fount Leaders don't always manage to do the right thing, but they constantly strive to access the wellspring of integrity within them. |
