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- b4225054129357.htm accessDate "2016-01-28".
- b4225054129357.htm author "Staley, Oliver".
- b4225054129357.htm format "online".
- b4225054129357.htm isCitedBy Philanthropy.
- b4225054129357.htm issue "--04-14".
- b4225054129357.htm journal Bloomberg_News.
- b4225054129357.htm quote ""T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman turned hedge fund investor, says he had a simple motivation for giving more than $500 million to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University: He got sick of watching the school's football team, the Cowboys, lose. "I quit coming to homecoming games because we got beat," says Pickens. "I don't like that feeling." / … Pickens, who graduated from what was then Oklahoma A&M in 1951, wasn't a big benefactor until 2002, when he contributed $20 million toward the $293 million renovation of OSU's football stadium, which now bears his name. Three years later he donated $165 million to the school's athletic department. … / Pickens's 2005 gift of $165 million was intended to narrow the gap between the two schools. His millions, along with an additional $37 million from OSU's endowment, were invested with Pickens's hedge fund, BP Capital. The investment had more than doubled in value, to $407 million, by June 2008. Then the financial crisis hit. By the time the school cashed out in November 2008, all that was left was $125 million. Pickens, who agreed to waive his management fees, says he didn't profit in any way from the arrangement. Holder says the school acted in good faith. "I'd do it all over again," he says.".
- b4225054129357.htm title "Philanthropy: T. Boone Pickens, OSU's Big, Big Man on Campus".
- b4225054129357.htm url b4225054129357.htm.
- b4225054129357.htm year "2011".