Warren E. Buffett

In January 1954, a bright-eyed 24-year-old from Cole Camp, Missouri, walked into Fortune magazines offices at Rockefeller Center in New York. Armed with a college journalism degree and work experience writing for a Maytag company magazine, she took an entry-level job assisting Fortunes male writers.

Billionaire Warren E. Buffett has never attended. Neither has Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, the world's largest company by market value. (His predecessor, Steve Jobs, never went, either.) The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, stopped going a couple of years ago, as did Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman. Both companies ...

Just days ago, the fate of a 144-year-old American icon was being hashed out in a Pittsburgh conference room as executives spoke by phone to representatives of two global billionaires who went by the code names 'Owl and 'Goose'

Steve Jobs is a genius. He is an innovator. A visionary. He is perhaps the most beloved billionaire in the world. Surprisingly, there is one thing that Mr Jobs is not, at least not yet: a prominent philanthropist.

In January 1954, a bright-eyed 24-year-old from Cole Camp, Missouri, walked into Fortune magazines offices at Rockefeller Center in New York. Armed with a college journalism degree and work experience writing for a Maytag company magazine, she took an entry-level job assisting Fortunes male writers.

Billionaire Warren E. Buffett has never attended. Neither has Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, the world's largest company by market value. (His predecessor, Steve Jobs, never went, either.) The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, stopped going a couple of years ago, as did Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman. Both companies ...

Just days ago, the fate of a 144-year-old American icon was being hashed out in a Pittsburgh conference room as executives spoke by phone to representatives of two global billionaires who went by the code names 'Owl and 'Goose'

Steve Jobs is a genius. He is an innovator. A visionary. He is perhaps the most beloved billionaire in the world. Surprisingly, there is one thing that Mr Jobs is not, at least not yet: a prominent philanthropist.