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In 2009, top executives at Synthes were indicted by United States federal prosecutors for conducting untested medical procedures on human patients without the authorization of the [[Food and Drug Administration]]. Three elderly people died. In 2009, the U.S. Attorneys for Eastern Pennsylvania formally handed down indictments. Federal prosecutors named Wyss as "Person Number 7" in the criminal conspiracy. He escaped indictment but four of Synthes' top executives went to prison. The company negotiated a plea deal in the amount of $23 million, after which Wyss sold the company for $21.3 billion in cash and stock to Johnson & Johnson.<ref name="bulletin">Wilkinson, Tara Loader. [http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2008-10-08/switzerlands-second-richest-man-makes-big-donation-to-harvard Switzerland's second richest man makes big donation to Harvard], ''[[Financial News|Wealth Bulletin]]'', 8 October 2008; retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref>
In 2009, top executives at Synthes were indicted by United States federal prosecutors for conducting untested medical procedures on human patients without the authorization of the [[Food and Drug Administration]]. Three elderly people died. In 2009, the U.S. Attorneys for Eastern Pennsylvania formally handed down indictments. Federal prosecutors named Wyss as "Person Number 7" in the criminal conspiracy. He escaped indictment but four of Synthes' top executives went to prison. The company negotiated a plea deal in the amount of $23 million, after which Wyss sold the company for $21.3 billion in cash and stock to Johnson & Johnson.<ref name="bulletin">Wilkinson, Tara Loader. [http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2008-10-08/switzerlands-second-richest-man-makes-big-donation-to-harvard Switzerland's second richest man makes big donation to Harvard], ''[[Financial News|Wealth Bulletin]]'', 8 October 2008; retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref>


==Philanthropy==
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==Environmental protection==
According to ''[[Forbes]]'', Wyss is "among the most [[philanthropy|philanthropic]] people in the world".<ref name=Forbes1215>{{cite web|title=Hansjoerg Wyss|url=http://www.forbes.com/profile/hansjoerg-wyss|website=Forbes|accessdate=2 January 2015}}</ref> Between 2004 and 2008, ''[[Businessweek]]'' estimated that Wyss personally donated nearly USD$277 million.<ref name=Hill09>{{cite news |title=Legal troubles for local billionaire |author=Miriam Hill |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20091206_Legal_troubles_for_local_billionaire.html |work=[[Philadelphia Media Network|Philly.com]] |date=December 6, 2009 |accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref> His giving has increased since the sale of Synthes in 2012 and in 2013 he signed [[The Giving Pledge]], agreeing to give away the majority of his fortune.<ref name=Williams14>{{cite news |title=Wyss, Yet Another Big Philanthropist, Turns to the Oceans |author=Tate Williams |url=http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/11/4/wyss-yet-another-big-philanthropist-turns-to-the-oceans.html |work=Inside Philanthropy |date=November 4, 2014 |accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref><ref name=Forbes1215/> The assets of his charitable foundations equal nearly $2 billion.<ref name=Forbes1215/>
Wyss is actively involved in landscape protection by buying up the mineral rights from the mining companies.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/16/eamillionaires116.xml&page=3 "Save the planet? Buy it"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''; retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref> In 1998, he established the [[Wyss Foundation]],<ref>[http://wyssfoundation.org/about-the-wyss-foundation Wyss Foundation website]; accessed 31 January 2015.</ref> which establishes and sponsors informal partnerships between non-governmental organisations and the United States administration to place large swathes of land under government protection. On account of these efforts,{{cn|date=September 2015}} almost {{convert|4400000|acre|km2}} of land have been declared national park districts.<ref>Gerry, Jim. [http://www.aofoundation.org/AOFileServer/PortalFiles?FilePath=/Extranet2007/active/_att/wor/act/Dialogue/2006_3/wyss.pdf Hansjörg Wyss honored for his philanthropy], [[AO Foundation]]; retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref>


His primary philanthropic causes are the [[Environmental movement|environment]], [[social justice]],<ref name=Williams14/> and [[science]],<ref name=Hill09/> but he also frequently contributes to historic projects and [[Europe|European]] museums.<ref name=Forbes1215/><ref name=Connolly11>{{cite news|title=Wyss May Top Bertarelli as Richest Swiss Man in Synthes Sale|author=Allison Connolly|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-19/wyss-may-replace-bertarelli-as-richest-swiss-man-in-synthes-sale|work=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg Business]]|date=20 April 2011|accessdate=6 August 2015}}</ref>
Wyss serves on the boards of [[The Wilderness Society (United States)|The Wilderness Society]], the [[Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance]], [[Rails-to-Trails]], and the [[Grand Canyon Trust]], he is one of the founders <ref>[https://www.aofoundation.org/Structure/the-ao-foundation/governance/board/Pages/academic-council.aspx The Academic Council, AO Foundation]; retrieved 15 April 2013.</ref> and is an honorary member of the [[AO Foundation]].<ref>[http://www.aofoundation.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/c0/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3hng7BARydDRwN3Aw8DAyOvEDdLP2MXIyBTvyDbUREAgKHacg!!/?contentUrl=%2Ftopnews%2F2008%2Fao_extranet_topNews_00000037.jsp Trustees Meeting 2008], [[AO Foundation]]; retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref> Wyss donated 3.7 million Swiss francs to the [[Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway]], which enabled the organisation to restore the railway line also between [[Gletsch railway station|Gletsch]] and [[Oberwald railway station|Oberwald]].<ref>[http://www.swisster.ch/news/society/furka-pass-railway-celebrates-historic-milestone.html Furka pass railway celebrates historic milestone], Swisster; retrieved 31 January 2015.</ref>


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===Environmental protection===
In 2000, Wyss purchased the {{convert|900|acre|km2|sing=on}} Halter Ranch in western [[Paso Robles, California]]. In 2004, ''Forbes'' ranked Wyss the 26th wealthiest person in Europe with almost $6 billion; by 2005, he rose to 18th place with an accumulated wealth of almost $8 billion.<ref>Stiles, Jim. [http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/april-may2006/takeleave.html Take It or Leave It], ''Canyon County Zephyr'', April–May 2006; retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref> In 2006, Wyss was ranked #72 on ''[[The Times]]'' list of 100 Richest People in the World.<ref>[http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/pdfs/strlworld.pdf The 100 Richest in the World 2006], timesonline.co.uk; retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref>
As of 2015, Wyss and a charitable organization he founded, the Wyss Foundation, have donated more than $350 million to [[environmental protection]], including [[Conservation (ethic)|conservation]] of national forests and other public lands in the [[Western United States]].<ref name=Taylor15>{{cite news | title='Quietly philanthropic' tycoon makes his mark in the West |author=Phil Taylor |url=http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060015651|work=[[Environment & Energy Publishing]] |date=May 24, 2015 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>


Wyss has stated that he became passionate about the American West and land preservation after visiting the U.S. in 1958 as a student and taking a summer job as a [[Surveying|surveyor]] with the Colorado Highway Department.<ref name=Taylor15/><ref name=Brown10/><ref name=Bonzom11>{{cite news |title=Bernese billionaire works to keep West wild |author=Marie-Christine Bonzom |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/bernese-billionaire-works-to-keep-west-wild/31446480 |work=[[Swissinfo]] |date=October 27, 2011 |accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref> In 1998, he created the Wyss Foundation<ref name=Suchecki15>{{cite news | title=Another Billionaire Comes to the Defense of Africa's Elephants and Rhinos |author=Paul M.J. Suchecki |url=http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/3/18/another-billionaire-comes-to-the-defense-of-africas-elephant.html |work=Inside Philanthropy |date=March 18, 2015 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> to establish and sponsor informal partnerships between non-governmental organizations and the United States government to place large swathes of land under permanent protection in the American West.<ref name=Bonzom11/> By 2006, via the initial efforts of the foundation, almost {{convert|4400000|acre|km2}} of public land had been labeled as [[National Monument (United States)|national monuments]] and [[National Conservation Area|national conservation areas]].<ref name=Gerry06>{{cite news |title=Hansjörg Wyss honored for his philanthropy |author=Jim Gerry |url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qH8gSvF3dG0J:https://www.aofoundation.org/Documents/aodialogue3_06.pdf+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us |work=[[AO Foundation]] |date=2006 |accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref> The Wyss Foundation's landscape protection strategies have included assisting the purchase of mineral leases from oil and gas companies.<ref name=Franklin08>{{cite news |title=Save the planet? Buy it |author=Jonathan Franklin |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3349689/Save-the-planet-Buy-it.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=August 16, 2008 |accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref><ref name=AP07>{{cite news |title=Trout Unlimited buys Rocky Mountain Front petroleum leases |author=Associated Press |url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/trout-unlimited-buys-rocky-mountain-front-petroleum-leases/article_4c3a694c-dcdc-547f-94fe-1cb9dafabcd4.html |work=[[Billings Gazette]] |date=April 12, 2007 |accessdate=17 September 2015}}</ref> Other causes the Wyss Foundation supports includes river restorations,<ref name=Taylor15/> [[Marine conservation|ocean conservation]] in Peru and Canada,<ref name=Williams14/> anti-[[poaching]] efforts in Africa, and [[environmental journalism]].<ref name=Suchecki15/><ref name=Gunther15>{{cite news | title=Behind one of the Nature Conservancy's largest ever forest purchases |author=Marc Gunther |url=http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/30/behind-one-of-the-nature-conservancys-largest-ever-forest-purchases |work= [[The Guardian]] |date=January 30, 2015 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> It also sponsors The Wyss Scholars Program for [[Postgraduate education|graduate-level education]] in conservation.<ref name=BainbridgeReview15>{{cite news | title=Island student wins scholarship |author= |url=http://www.bainbridgereview.com/community/295491161.html# |work=[[The Review (Bainbridge Island) | Bainbridge Review]] |date=March 7, 2015 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=Connolly11/>
On 29 January 2015, it was reported that [[John Podesta]] is the driving force inside the White House to block 12 million acres of land in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling, and who founded the [[Center for American Progress]] (CAP), had been hired by Wyss in 2013 as a "consultant". Wyss has donated $4 million [[USD]] to CAP, and is a member of CAP's Board. Podesta worked at Wyss’s HJW Foundation in 2013 and joined the White House in January 2014. Federal conflict of interest rules overseen by the Office of Government Ethics also instruct political appointees to "not work on any matter" if the work of their previous employer "would raise a question regarding the employee's impartiality." The law applies to White House officials and it is unclear if Podesta ever even sought a waiver. Wyss lives in Wyoming where he continues his campaign against oil and gas drilling, as well as seeking grazing bans on federal lands. At the end of 2013, he merged the HJF Foundation with his Wyss Foundation, building a private foundation that has amassed a net value of $2 billion, according to tax filings.{{cn|date=July 2015}}


In addition to the Wyss Foundation's land protection activity, in 2010, Wyss personally gave The Nature Conservancy $35 million to purchase 310,000 acres in Montana as part of one of the largest private conservation purchases in the United States.<ref name=Taylor15/><ref name=Brown10>{{cite news |title=Hansjorg Wyss: Swiss Billionaire Puts $35 Million Toward Conservation In Western Montana |author=Matthew Brown |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/14/hansjorg-wyss-swiss-billi_n_796759.html |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=December 14, 2010 |accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref>He donated $4.25 million to [[The Trust for Public Land]] in 2013 for the purchase of oil and gas leases in [[Wyoming]] to prevent development in the Hoback Basin.<ref name=Forbes1215/><ref name=Taylor15/>
Podesta has been criticized for CAP's excessive secrecy. A ''Nation'' article in 2013 accused Podesta's CAP of being "among the most secretive of all think tanks concerning its donors." In early January 2015, CAP gave a list of its donors to a ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter, Greg Sargent, but any references to Wyss were omitted; the list reported three "anonymous" donors. 2013 tax documents from the HJW Foundation and the Wyss Foundation show that Wyss contributed $1.5 million to CAP that year alone.<ref>[http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/29/obama-adviser-podesta-caught-green-handed-in-major-ethics-violation "Obama adviser Podesta caught green-handed in major ethics violation"], dailycaller.com; accessed 31 January 2015.</ref>

Wyss is involved with [[The Wilderness Society (United States)|The Wilderness Society]], [[Rails-to-Trails]],<ref name=Gerry06/> and serves on the boards of the [[Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance]], [[Center for American Progress]], and the Grand Canyon Trust.<ref name=Harbus15>{{cite news |title=HBS Receives $25 Million Gift for Doctoral Program |author= |url=http://www.harbus.org/2004/hbs-receives-25-million-2892/ |work=The Harbus |date=October 25, 2004 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=Franklin08/><ref name=Taylor15/> In 2011, Wyss won the [[Bob_Marshall_(wilderness_activist)|Robert Marshall Award]] from The Wilderness Society for his conservation work.<ref name=Bonzom11/>

In January 2015, [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] U.S. news site ''[[The Daily Caller]]'' accused [[John Podesta]], who was at the time an advisor on environmental issues to the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]], of an ethics violation for pushing the advocacy agenda of a former employer, because he had previously received $87,000 as a consulting fee for work he did for Wyss' HJW Foundation in 2013 (that organization was later merged with the Wyss Foundation). It was also noted that the Wyss Foundation had previously donated $4 million to the [[Center for American Progress]] (CAP), which Podesta founded.<ref name=Pollock15>{{cite news |title=Obama adviser Podesta caught green-handed in major ethics violation |author=Richard Pollock |url=http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/29/obama-adviser-podesta-caught-green-handed-in-major-ethics-violation |work=[[The Daily Caller]] |date=January 29, 2015 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> According to the ''[[High Country News]]'', "nothing ever came of the accusations".<ref name=Shogren15>{{cite web |title=John Podesta: Legacy maker |author=Elizabeth Shogren |url=https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.9/john-podesta-legacy-maker |work=[[High Country News]] |date=May 25, 2015 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>


==Support of scientific research==
==Support of scientific research==

Revision as of 02:17, 9 October 2015

Hansjörg Wyss
Born (1935-09-19) 19 September 1935 (age 88)
Bern, Switzerland
Alma materSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich[1]
Harvard Business School
Occupation(s)Former CEO of Synthes
Chairman of The Wyss Foundation and The HJW Foundation
ChildrenAmy Wyss

Hansjörg Wyss (pronounced HAHNZ-jorg VEES) (born 19 September 1935) is a Swiss entrepreneur and businessman. As of 2015, Wyss ranks #240 on the Forbes list of billionaires, with a net worth of approximately $6.1 billion.[2][3]

Early life and career

Wyss was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1936. His father sold mechanical calculators and his mother was a homemaker. He was raised in an apartment with two sisters.[4] After receiving a Master of Science degree in Civil and Structural Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 1959,[1] Wyss earned an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business in 1965. Following that, he worked in various positions in the textile industry, including plant engineer and project manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines.[1][5]

Wyss also worked in the steel industry in Brussels, Belgium.[1] During his time working in that industry, Wyss ran a side business selling airplanes. Through one sale, he met a surgeon who had co-founded Swiss medical device manufacturer Synthes.[6] After that meeting, Wyss spent two years learning about the medical device industry. He founded and became president of Synthes USA in 1977.[5]

Synthes USA

In 1974, Wyss founded "Synthes USA", the US division of Synthes, a firm manufacturing Swiss-designed medical devices for orthopedic and trauma surgery. It became the third industrial partner of AO/ASIF. Synthes USA started marketing Synthes products in the USA the following year and later also in Canada.[7] Wyss later became CEO of the entire company and over the next 30 years built it into an industry giant that specialized in making plates and screws to stabilize broken bones.[citation needed]

In 2009, top executives at Synthes were indicted by United States federal prosecutors for conducting untested medical procedures on human patients without the authorization of the Food and Drug Administration. Three elderly people died. In 2009, the U.S. Attorneys for Eastern Pennsylvania formally handed down indictments. Federal prosecutors named Wyss as "Person Number 7" in the criminal conspiracy. He escaped indictment but four of Synthes' top executives went to prison. The company negotiated a plea deal in the amount of $23 million, after which Wyss sold the company for $21.3 billion in cash and stock to Johnson & Johnson.[3]

Philanthropy

According to Forbes, Wyss is "among the most philanthropic people in the world".[8] Between 2004 and 2008, Businessweek estimated that Wyss personally donated nearly USD$277 million.[6] His giving has increased since the sale of Synthes in 2012 and in 2013 he signed The Giving Pledge, agreeing to give away the majority of his fortune.[9][8] The assets of his charitable foundations equal nearly $2 billion.[8]

His primary philanthropic causes are the environment, social justice,[9] and science,[6] but he also frequently contributes to historic projects and European museums.[8][1]

Environmental protection

As of 2015, Wyss and a charitable organization he founded, the Wyss Foundation, have donated more than $350 million to environmental protection, including conservation of national forests and other public lands in the Western United States.[10]

Wyss has stated that he became passionate about the American West and land preservation after visiting the U.S. in 1958 as a student and taking a summer job as a surveyor with the Colorado Highway Department.[10][11][4] In 1998, he created the Wyss Foundation[12] to establish and sponsor informal partnerships between non-governmental organizations and the United States government to place large swathes of land under permanent protection in the American West.[4] By 2006, via the initial efforts of the foundation, almost 4,400,000 acres (18,000 km2) of public land had been labeled as national monuments and national conservation areas.[13] The Wyss Foundation's landscape protection strategies have included assisting the purchase of mineral leases from oil and gas companies.[14][15] Other causes the Wyss Foundation supports includes river restorations,[10] ocean conservation in Peru and Canada,[9] anti-poaching efforts in Africa, and environmental journalism.[12][16] It also sponsors The Wyss Scholars Program for graduate-level education in conservation.[17][1]

In addition to the Wyss Foundation's land protection activity, in 2010, Wyss personally gave The Nature Conservancy $35 million to purchase 310,000 acres in Montana as part of one of the largest private conservation purchases in the United States.[10][11]He donated $4.25 million to The Trust for Public Land in 2013 for the purchase of oil and gas leases in Wyoming to prevent development in the Hoback Basin.[8][10]

Wyss is involved with The Wilderness Society, Rails-to-Trails,[13] and serves on the boards of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Center for American Progress, and the Grand Canyon Trust.[18][14][10] In 2011, Wyss won the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society for his conservation work.[4]

In January 2015, conservative U.S. news site The Daily Caller accused John Podesta, who was at the time an advisor on environmental issues to the Obama administration, of an ethics violation for pushing the advocacy agenda of a former employer, because he had previously received $87,000 as a consulting fee for work he did for Wyss' HJW Foundation in 2013 (that organization was later merged with the Wyss Foundation). It was also noted that the Wyss Foundation had previously donated $4 million to the Center for American Progress (CAP), which Podesta founded.[19] According to the High Country News, "nothing ever came of the accusations".[20]

Support of scientific research

In 2007, he received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award,[5][21] and in fall 2008, it was announced that Wyss donated the largest single endowment from one source in Harvard's history when he gave $125 million to found a multidisciplinary institute, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.[3][22][23]

In 2012-13, he announced the creation of the Campus Biotech and of its Wyss Center for Bio- and Neuro-engineering in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2014, Wyss donated $120 million to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the University of Zurich for the new Wyss Translational Center Zurich.[24]

Personal life

Wyss is an active hiker, skier and backpacker.[10][11] He is also a hobby pilot.[1]

Wyss lives in Wyoming[25] where he is involved in outdoor education programs and funds local efforts to conserve wildlife habitat and public lands in the Rocky Mountains.[26][10] In 2000, Wyss purchased the 900-acre (3.6 km2) Halter Ranch & Vineyard in western Paso Robles, California.[27]

As of 2015, Wyss ranks 240 on the Forbes list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of approximately $6.1 billion.[8][3] He ranks number 70 on the Bloomberg list of billionaires.[25]

Wyss has one daughter, Amy Wyss, who also lives in Wyoming.[28]

References

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  2. ^ a b "Hansjoerg Wyss". Forbes. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d Wilkinson, Tara Loader. Switzerland's second richest man makes big donation to Harvard, Wealth Bulletin, 8 October 2008; retrieved 15 October 2008.
  4. ^ a b c d Marie-Christine Bonzom (27 October 2011). "Bernese billionaire works to keep West wild". Swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Cite error: The named reference "Bonzom11" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b c "Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965". alumni.hbs.edu. Harvard Business School. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  6. ^ a b c Miriam Hill (6 December 2009). "Legal troubles for local billionaire". Philly.com. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Cite error: The named reference "Hill09" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  7. ^ Synthes Company History
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Hansjoerg Wyss". Forbes. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. ^ a b c Tate Williams (4 November 2014). "Wyss, Yet Another Big Philanthropist, Turns to the Oceans". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h Phil Taylor (24 May 2015). "'Quietly philanthropic' tycoon makes his mark in the West". Environment & Energy Publishing. Retrieved 25 June 2015. Cite error: The named reference "Taylor15" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  11. ^ a b c Matthew Brown (14 December 2010). "Hansjorg Wyss: Swiss Billionaire Puts $35 Million Toward Conservation In Western Montana". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Cite error: The named reference "Brown10" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  12. ^ a b Paul M.J. Suchecki (18 March 2015). "Another Billionaire Comes to the Defense of Africa's Elephants and Rhinos". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  13. ^ a b Jim Gerry (2006). "Hansjörg Wyss honored for his philanthropy". AO Foundation. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  14. ^ a b Jonathan Franklin (16 August 2008). "Save the planet? Buy it". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  15. ^ Associated Press (12 April 2007). "Trout Unlimited buys Rocky Mountain Front petroleum leases". Billings Gazette. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  16. ^ Marc Gunther (30 January 2015). "Behind one of the Nature Conservancy's largest ever forest purchases". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  17. ^ "Island student wins scholarship". Bainbridge Review. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  18. ^ "HBS Receives $25 Million Gift for Doctoral Program". The Harbus. 25 October 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  19. ^ Richard Pollock (29 January 2015). "Obama adviser Podesta caught green-handed in major ethics violation". The Daily Caller. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  20. ^ Elizabeth Shogren (25 May 2015). "John Podesta: Legacy maker". High Country News. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  21. ^ Zobel gets highest alumni award from Harvard, Philippine Daily Inquirer; retrieved 15 October 2008.
  22. ^ "Alum gives Harvard $125 million", msnbc.com; retrieved 15 October 2008.
  23. ^ Harvard alum donates record $125M, usatoday.com, 7 October 2008; retrieved 15 October 2008.
  24. ^ André Müller (12 December 2014). "Hansjörg Wyss sponsoring research". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  25. ^ a b "#240 Hansjoerg Wyss". Forbes. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015. Cite error: The named reference "Bloomberg15" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  26. ^ Jeanne O'Brien (5 January 2011). "Wilderness Medicine Campus Coming to Wyoming". snewsnet.com. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  27. ^ Faith Echtermeyer (8 January 2014). "Swiss billionaire merges winemaking, conservation on coast". ocregister.com. Orange County Register. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  28. ^ "#1044 Amy Wyss". Forbes. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
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