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Eli Broad 埃利布罗德 Few businessmen have achieved as much as Eli Broad. Not only did he develop two Fortune500 businesses from scratch , he has also been a serial entrepreneur inthe arts. Mr Broad backed Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman, and founded the Museum ofContemporary Art in Los Angeles . This son of the Bronx now calls the City of Angelshome and has set out to give it a new heart by driving the development of a downtown areawith a strong emphasis on culture. He has also been a significant and controversialphilanthropist, funding scientific research and failing schools. 埃利布罗德的成就在商人中几乎无人可敌。不仅在于他从零开始创办了两家世界500强的企业，而且他还多次投资艺术类项目。布罗德先生是杰夫昆斯和辛迪舍曼的资助人，还建立了洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆。出生在布朗克斯的他如今已视洛杉矶为家，并着手开发这座城市的一片闹市区，着重发展文化主题，打造一个新的城市中心。他曾一度是位举足轻重又饱受争议的慈善家，成功建立科研机构但筹建学校却差强人意。 Mr Broad s straight-to-the-point narrative165 pages of text with a 12-page appendix ofhis career highlights and just the minimum colour necessary to illustrate the importantlessons that life has taught himis part of what he is trying to convey about himself. Where,say, Jack Welch spews out hundreds of pages in Jack: Straight From the Gut andRichard Branson spares no detail as he explains how he has spent his life trying to ScrewBusiness As Usual , Mr Broad has delivered a book that is as brief as he likes to keepeverything else in life . | 
