A chance encounter in 2015 led Steve Schwarzman, the septuagenarian private-equity billionaire, to become one of the biggest and most unlikely champions of artificial intelligence.

John A. “Mac” McQuown (’57), financial innovator, environmentalist, Northwestern University alumnus and generous benefactor, died Tuesday, October 22. He was 90 years old. McQuown, who received the ...

Dominicans knew what that meant: Generalissimo Trujillo, self-styled Benefactor of the Fatherland, would still be watching. For Trujillo, giving up the presidency does not necessarily mean giving ...