''I also give to United Jewish Appeal,'' Mr. Broad said. Isenberg's prime cause is education, and the major beneficiary has been his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts. At the same time, you get to know the people, because you’re in business reviews, you’re in strategy reviews, you’re in budget reviews, you’re in people reviews with them. Other beneficiaries included a community foundation in Sheridan, Wyo., near where he has a home; and his alma mater, Vanderbilt University.SOME people want to change the world; Stephen M. Case wants to connect it to the Internet. A company spokesman said: ''It gives in communities where we are physically located. Separately, he gives $90,000 annually for scholarships at the university in mathematics, engineering, computer science and business. In 1996, when Mr. Weill was chief executive of Travelers Group, its foundation gave the program $1.2 million.The Travelers foundation also gave to the Cornell medical school and to Carnegie Hall, where the recital hall is named for Mr. Weill because of a gift he made in 1983 and where he is chairman of the board. On Friday, stock in Citigroup, the company formed from the merger of Citicorp and Travelers, closed at $49.875.Mr. “Amazon is secretive, but it is not a black box. Colgate-Palmolive is a corporate contributor to the program.ELI BROAD does not shirk the philanthropic limelight; he is eager to talk about both his views on philanthropy and the size of his gifts. Louis V. Gerstner Jr… ''But I am more interested in the community.
Leo J. O'Donovan, is on Disney's board.Mr. Mr. Bossidy declined to be interviewed; Bishop Egan said he was very generous, and another associate added that he sometimes preferred to be quiet about his giving.
Previously cities included Ridgefield CT and Nantucket MA. ''It was time to give something back to education,'' Mr. Isenberg said. In other cases, corporate giving mirrors the chief executive's interests; that is the case for I.B.M. ''When the market is up, you feel good about giving,'' Mr. Weill said. Last year, he said, his adjusted gross income was $38 million, between pay from SunAmerica and investment income. ''What did Mr. Isenberg himself donate last year?
And some, including Mr. Isenberg, do not believe in corporate philanthropy. and Mr. Gerstner, a company spokesman said.Whatever the size of their giving, the wealthiest executives are often quite ordinary when it comes to choosing recipients.
''I could afford to do it, and I did it.''Mr. ''He does believe in charitable giving, but he feels it is a private matter and he is not going to discuss it,'' she said.The Welch foundation gave $19,381 to the Inner City Foundation in Bridgeport, Conn. ''Jack Welch has been the guiding light behind it for seven years, and his wife, Jane, is on the board,'' said Bishop Edward M. Egan, president of the Inner City Foundation.Mr.
Symphony officials confirmed that he gives to that organization in the range of $7,500 to $10,000 a year, and Compaq says he is a member of the Alexis de Toqueville Society of the United Way, which requires a minimum gift of $10,000.Compaq's corporate giving is being reassessed as the company absorbs recent acquisitions: the Digital Equipment Corporation and Tandem Computer. It may be the perfect antidote to Enron and Andersen. We’d been exposed to them.I don’t like situations where you have a far-ranging discussion of something, and then you come to a conclusion, and somehow or other it never happens. Mr. Eisner also has contributed more than $1 million to Georgetown University, his son's alma mater. A guide to respond and emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis. So if there’s an important decision to be made at the business-unit level, you can relate to it directly. We want to be good neighbors. A lot of people were wondering what would happen to them after the merger; a lot of people were looking for a job. American Express, where Mr. Weill was then an executive, assisted with $100,000 to start the program. ''Basically, I think it is the shareholders' money,'' Mr. Isenberg said. ''Jack and Larry always get the best caddies,'' one longtime member joked.The articles on these two pages, by Geraldine Fabrikant and Shelby White, describe the charitable giving of 12 of the highest-paid executives in a sampling of the nation's 500 biggest companies, ranked by market capitalization.The data on pay were collected by Graef Crystal, an executive compensation expert, from corporate proxy statements filed for the companies' 1997 fiscal year. ''They have always taken the position that what they give is anonymous,'' said Jerome Radwin, executive vice president of the organization. Party Affiliation: Republican Party Registered to Vote In: Connecticut Registration Date: 02/29/2000 Voter Status: Off Status Reason: Move Out Of State. Mark declined to comment on his giving. Because remember, this is the best process in the world by a magnitude of 10, despite the Enrons and the Tycos and some other disappointments. So he never gets better. But others, like John F. Welch Jr. of General Electric, say their giving is nobody else's business and disclose only what the tax laws demand. – Larry Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell and coauthor of Execution, which spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. ''In Los Angeles we don't have a tradition of philanthropy,'' Mr. Broad said in a telephone interview.
I write down two columns — what I like, what can improve — and a summary. ''ECKHARD PFEIFFER has been in Houston for just eight years, but he is already a familiar figure at charitable events, where gossip columns record his attendance at A-list functions, escorting the socialite Caroline Farb.It is not surprising that as one of Houston's most prominent businessmen, he would be invited to join his adopted city's most prominent boards, including those of the Houston Symphony, the Greater Houston Partnership and the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.