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  Charles G. Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles G. Koch (November 1, 1935–) is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries, Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in America.
Charles was born and lives in Wichita, Kansas, one of four sons of Fred C. and Mary Robinson Koch.
Charles Koch is a libertarian and supports many pro-free-market organizations such as the Cato Institute, which he founded together with Edward H. Crane in 1977.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_G._Koch   (181 words)

  
 Charles G. Koch -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1957, Charles received a (additional info and facts about bachelor's degree) bachelor's degree in general (The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems) engineering.
Charles was born and lives in (additional info and facts about Wichita, Kansas) Wichita, Kansas.
Charles Koch is a (Someone who believes the doctrine of free will) libertarian and supports many pro-free-market organizations such as the (additional info and facts about Cato Institute) Cato Institute, which he founded together with (additional info and facts about Edward H. Crane) Edward H. Crane in 1977.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_g._koch.htm   (236 words)

  
 Politics of Oil - The Center for Public Integrity
Koch Industries (pronounced "coke") is a huge oil conglomerate controlled by brothers Charles and David Koch, two of the country's richest men and among the biggest backers of conservative and libertarian causes.
The Kochs were also sued by their own brother several years ago in a case where the company was accused of stealing millions of barrels of oil from federal and Native American lands.
Charles and David Koch practice an economic philosophy at the company dubbed market-based management, which is based on the premise that societies which encourage entrepreneurship and individual responsibility will create vast wealth.
www.publicintegrity.org /oil/report.aspx?aid=347   (3175 words)

  
 Koch watches over Wichita | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Koch Industries' glass-and-granite headquarters rise from the prairie in Wichita, Kan. Charles Koch, who joined the firm in 1961, is credited with building the company into an international powerhouse.
Charles Koch, who joined the family-owned firm in 1961 and took over six years later when his father died, is credited with patching together a group of loosely linked oil companies and building them into an international powerhouse.
Charles Koch has said that investing in his company with a long view, and empowering employees to make critical decisions through his "market-based management" philosophy, has been the key to success.
ajc.com /services/content/business/1105/15bizgpwichita.html?...&cxcat=6   (787 words)

  
 The Nation - Selected Feature
Fred Koch, the family patriarch, was the son of a frontier newspaperman and, in the 1920s, studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Charles and David were on one side and David's fraternal twin, William, and the oldest son, Frederick, were on the other.
Koch issued a forty-three-page paper blasting the hearings as "one-sided, unfair and replete with errors of both misstatement and omission." The company accused the disgruntled brother, William, of pursuing a personal vendetta.
www.mediatransparency.org /reprints/bobdolekoch.htm   (4174 words)

  
 Koch's big buy: Quiet giant elevates its profile | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Koch Industries dates to 1927, when Fred Koch, father of current Chairman and CEO Charles Koch, developed a new process for refining crude oil.
Charles joined his father in 1961 and, six years later, took over the company when the elder Koch died.
Charles Koch and his brother, David, are well-known in Kansas, given that they are the richest men in the state.
www.ajc.com /news/content/business/1105/14bizkoch.html   (660 words)

  
 David H. Koch (with Julia)
Koch Industries, a conglomerate with major oil and gas holdings, is the second-largest privately-held company in the United States.
In January, former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith joined the family feud, filing a lawsuit against Koch Industries for allegedly conspiring with her stepson to defraud her of $474 million in Koch Industries stock that she alleges was left to her by her late husband.
David Koch and his wife Julie gave every penny of their $487,500 in campaign contributions during the last election cycle to the Republican Party, its candidates, and conservative political action committees.
www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/mojo_400/51_koch.html   (513 words)

  
 Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
David and Charles Koch, sons of the ultraconservative founder of Koch Industries, Fred Koch, direct the three Koch family foundations: the Charles G. Koch Foundation, the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.
Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute, and David Koch co-founded Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) [now FreedomWorks], where he serves as chairman of the board of directors.
Charles Koch is a board member at the Mercatus Center, which describes itself as a "research and education center [that] generates knowledge and understanding of how institutions affect the freedom to prosper and holds organizations accountable for their impact on that freedom."
www.mediatransparency.org /funderprofile.php?funderID=9   (2627 words)

  
 Mercatus Center - Charles Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles Koch is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries, Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in America.
Koch received a bachelor;s in general engineering (1957) and two master's degrees in mechanical (nuclear) and chemical engineering (1958 and 1959, respectively) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Koch is a director of Intrust Bank, N.A. His non-business activities include serving as Chairman of the Institute for Humane Studies, the Claude R. Lambe Foundation and the
www.mercatus.org /people.php/145.html?menuid=1   (661 words)

  
 CBS News | Blood And Oil | August 15, 2001 18:38:51
Charles Koch, head of the company, testified that his gaugers weren’t stealing, they were making adjustments to compensate for irregularities like sludge or water in the tank.
Former EPA administrator Carol Browner announced in 2000 that she was hitting Koch Industries with the largest civil penalty in the history of the federal Clean Water Act: a $30 million fine.
Koch is require by law to ensure that its vast pipeline system is protected from corrosion in two ways.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/11/27/60II/main252545.shtml   (1690 words)

  
 MDO - Sibling rivalry leads brothers into court case - 04/20/1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bill Koch and another brother, Frederick Koch, are suing Koch Industries -- the company founded by their father -- and executives over a 1983 stock sale.
Bill Koch is next on the list of witnesses filed by his attorneys before the trial with U.S. District Judge Sam Crow.
Koch Industries is the nation's second-largest privately held corporation, with $30 billion in reported sales in 1997 and interests in crude oil refineries, asphalt plants, cattle ranches, feedlots and grain elevators.
www.mndaily.com /daily/1998/04/20/news/ap420b.ap   (452 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Wichita, Kansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ironically, White Castle closed all of their restaurants in Wichita in 1938 and has not operated in the state of Kansas after a failed revival attempt in the Kansas City area in the early 1990s.
The Americas Cup is the most famous and most prestigious competition in the sport of yachting, and the oldest active trophy in international sports, predating the FA Cup by two decades and the Modern Olympics by 45 years.
Charles G. Koch (November 1, 1935–) is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries, Inc....
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wichita,-Kansas   (7121 words)

  
 GoShockers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles Koch Arena opened in the Fall, 2003, and the first event inside the new facility was the fourth annual Green Mill Restaurant Shocker Volleyball Classic (pictured left) on Sept. 12-13, 2003.
Charles Koch Arena, as Levitt Arena was before it, is recognized around the Missouri Valley Conference and the nation for the homecourt advantage that boisterous WSU fans provide the Shockers.
Charles Koch Arena is recognized around the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) for its homecourt advantage that boisterous Wichita State fans provide the Shockers.
www.goshockers.com /koch.aspx   (1430 words)

  
 revolution: charles koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles Koch, one of the heirs to the Koch Industries family fortune, bankrolled some libertarian organizations.
Koch became active in the libertarian movement in 1976.
Charles' brother David won the 1980 Libertarian Party nomination for Vice President.
www.boogieonline.com /revolution/by_name/K/CharlesKoch.html   (98 words)

  
 The Clear and Present Danger of the Sociopathic Insanity of David H. Koch
Koch officials conceded in court that corrosion control had been inadequate and that the company had not effectively distributed information to the public on how to recognize and respond to a pipeline leak.
Koch is a director of INTRUST BANK, N.A. His non-business activities include serving as chairman of the INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES, the CLAUDE R. and the CHARLES G., on the board of the MERCATUS CENTER at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, and as a member of the MONT PELERIN SOCIETY.
KOCH INDUSTRIES was a large contributor to the Bush campaign, and when the current administration took office, they found the counts dropped for a settlement on a charge of 'falsifying documents.'...
www.ecosyn.us /adti/Killer_David_Koch.html   (6090 words)

  
 Koch Family Foundations - SourceWatch
Koch Family Foundations[1] (http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=9) consist of the David H. Koch Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.
In fact, Charles Koch is a co-founder of Cato in 1977 and David helped to launch CSE in 1986.
Koch Industries and the Pollution of the Bush White House, Parts I and II (http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/koch.htm); on-line article includes source links.
sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Koch_family's_charitable_foundations   (575 words)

  
 Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation was established in 1980 by Charles G. Koch.
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax as an Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 501(c)(3) organization and is a private foundation within the meaning of Section509(a) of the Code.
Grants from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation are made only to charitable organizations as defined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
www.cgkfoundation.org   (258 words)

  
 Koch: Very Private, and a Lot Bigger
Koch Industries, which Charles Koch (pronounced "coke") took over 38 years ago from his father, company founder Fred Koch, agreed on Nov. 14 to fork over $21 billion in cash and assumed debt for paper giant Georgia-Pacific (GP).
Charles Koch, 70, and brother David, 65, own the bulk of the company after elbowing out their other brothers, William and Frederick, in 1983.
Koch Industries began in 1940 as an oil refiner, and the bulk of its holdings are still in the oil and gas industry.
businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/nov2005/nf20051115_8925.htm?...   (1028 words)

  
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Koch's corporate services currently are nonprofit entities, not because the company's executives are certain that this is the best way of organizing internal markets, but because they are searching for a solution that captures the benefits of internal markets without sabotaging teamwork.
Koch's combination of profit centers and nonprofit service groups, along with the evaluation criteria for managers, are an attempt to capture the benefits of a market economy while preserving the benefits of having these entities in one business firm.
Koch management acted on the possibility that the unit operator might have superior knowledge in his area of expertise, and they were right.
www.huizenga.nova.edu /5012/textbooks/mbm.htm   (15878 words)

  
 Interview with Charles John Koch, Charter One Financial, Inc.: TWST
CHARLES JOHN KOCH is Chairman, President and CEO of Charter One Financial, Inc.
Koch: Charter One is now the 22nd largest bank in the country, having converted to a national bank charter in May 2002.
Koch: We are pretty clear on what our business plan and strategy is and the execution against that strategy is something investors should follow.
www.twst.com /notes/articles/ran600.html   (786 words)

  
 David H. Koch - SourceWatch
David H. Koch is one of the billionaire co-owners of Koch Industries.
With his brother, Charles G. Koch, he runs the Koch Family Foundations, one of the largest single sources of funding for conservative organizations in the United States.
This is the largest penalty imposed on a company under federal environmental laws, and is based upon spills of at least 41,000 barrels of oil and other petroleum, resulting in over three hundred violations of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 in six states.
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=David_H._Koch   (466 words)

  
 Small Wind System Success Stories
Koch estimates that up to half of his electricity is generated from the wind.
Since winter is the season when his demand for electricity is highest – and the wind blows hardest – the two small wind turbines are a good match for his farm and home.
Koch is now exploring solar photovoltaic options “to balance off” his wind power generation.
www.awea.org /smallwind/success_stories/success_stories_029.html   (406 words)

  
 Engology.com, Engineer Charles Koch, Billionaire Engineer, High Profile Engineers, Professional Engineering, Chartered ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Koch is director of the First National Bank in Wichita.
Koch is known to the community as a devoted family man who spends much of his time outside the office with his wife, Elizabeth, his son, Chase, and his daughter, Elizabeth.
Although in his twenty years with Koch Industries, Inc., Koch has turned his father's company into a business empire, the ambitious side of the man's character pushes him to aspire to even higher goals by expanding the business and continuing to grow in the business community as much as possible in the coming years.
www.engology.com /eng5koch.htm   (210 words)

  
 Koch - pixels.pixelpark.com/~koch/hide_css_from_browsers/
As a supplier of high-use products targeted toward meat and food processors, KOCH is available to help you find the products you require for your business.
KOCH Entertainment is the leading and fastest-growing independent music company in KOCH Entertainment is the market leader among independent labels and
38, Christoph Koch: On the Complexity of Nonrecursive XQuery and Functional Query Languages on 36, Christoph Koch: On the role of composition in XQuery.
koch.getinfoeasy.com   (169 words)

  
 Compensation for Charles J. Koch, CHARTER ONE FINANCIAL, Chairman of the Board President and Chief
This section contains the Total Compensation for Charles J. Koch at CHARTER ONE FINANCIAL, CF The current role of Charles J. Koch is Chairman of the Board President and Chief Executive Officer.
Total compensation includes the salary for Charles J. Koch, Chairman of the Board President and Chief Executive Officer.
Also included is stock options information both number of shares and value for Charles J. Koch, Chairman of the Board President and Chief Executive Officer for CHARTER ONE FINANCIAL CF.
swz.salary.com /execcomp/layouthtmls/excl_execreport_104086.html   (1786 words)

  
 Organized Crime Ring - Killer Koch's Citizens for a Sound Economy
Kochs are part of a network of conservative benefactors that support industry-friendly think tanks, experts and subsidized media that repeat, embellish and reinforce their core message that corporations are good while government regulations, labor unions, environmentalists, liberal Democrats, and anything else that might restrict corporate behavior are bad.
All major charges were dropped, and Koch and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a $20 million fine, saving $332 million dollars in fines if convicted.
The indictment alleges that in 1995, Koch Industries and Koch Petroleum Group were informed by an employee that the West Plant had at least 91 metric tons of uncontrolled benzene in its liquid waste streams, some 15 times greater than the 6 metric ton limit that applied to the refinery.
www.ecosyn.us /adti/CSE_Organized_Crime.html   (5248 words)

  
 Atlas Economic Research Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation’s Development Apprentice Program Despite its vital importance to non-profits, development is often misunderstood and overlooked as a fruitful career path.
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation's Development Apprentice Program seeks to change this by providing eight young people each year with an opportunity to learn about development first-hand.
They are also exposed to Market-Based Management, the management philosophy that helped make Charles Koch an extraordinarily successful businessman.
www.atlasusa.org /classifieds/details.php?id=450&refer=classifieds   (387 words)

  
 Koch Industries' Newsroom - Koch Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Koch’s interest in and commitment to scientific and social progress, which led to the development and implementation at Koch Industries of Market Based Management®.
Koch has received a number of academic, business and community honors and awards.
Koch is a director of Intrust Bank, N.A. His non-business activities include serving as chairman of the Institute for Humane Studies, the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, on the board of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and as a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
www.kochind.com /newsroom/bio_detail.asp?ID=1   (609 words)

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