Two seemingly unrelated investment stories roused the press and the public this week.

Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the not-for-profit Harlem Children’s Zone, may be wondering about the cost of connections.

When Michael Jackson died in June, the words “RIP Michael Jackson” on Twitter and Facebook broke the news to millions of people.

As president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger has quietly - and sometimes not so quietly - taken on a broader role as ambassador.

Describing it as the “largest hedge fund insider trading case” ever, federal authorities charged billionaire Raj Rajaratnam with conspiracy and securities fraud.

The aftershocks of Bruce Wasserstein’s death this week are just beginning to be felt.

When you’re suspected of having granted favors to a future employer while still in government office, you’re apt to become the focus of a grand jury investigation.

Wealthy financier Lionel Pincus died Saturday, ending a chapter in a rancorous legal battle between his family and his love interest, Princess Firyal of Jordan.

Not since Woodrow Wilson has a sitting American president been awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Three Americans have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for a discovery that has been likened to the tip of a shoelace.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has turned up the heat on a major Republican fundraiser Elliott B. Broidy.

Give Rick Scott this much: He may have reinvented himself shamelessly, but he’s done it in full public view.

B. Joseph White seemed like a perfect fit when he was named president of the University of Illinois in 2004.

The endowment downturn at Yale represents a setback of sorts for the money management theories of David F. Swensen, the university’s chief investment officer

Paul J. Kern never made big bucks as a four-star general. The Army pay grade for his rank was less than $200,000 a year.

A guilty plea to security fraud and a $12 million fine haven’t kept Barrett N. Wissman from traveling to Italy, enjoying a fine merlot and hobnobbing with celebrities.

Finn M.W. Caspersen was a generous man.

The man praised by punk priestess Patti Smith as “the best poet of his generation” was much better known as the drug-addicted street hustler in “The Basketball Diaries.”

Whatever epitaphs mark the graves of great men and women, few can compare with the singular achievement of a little-known American who died two days ago.

The story of Danny Pang, a West Coast money manager charged with conducting a massive Ponzi scheme, took a dramatic and mysterious turn with his death last weekend.