Back in April, Kirk Kerkorian claimed he wanted to buy an extra 20 million shares of Ford Motor Co. That would have given him a total of 120 million shares and 5.6% of the Dearborn-based automaker.

UNLV School of Medicine and its first permanent facility will be named after the late Kirk Kerkorian, a Las Vegas gaming pioneer known as the father of the Las Vegas megaresort. The naming of The ...

Beverly Hills-based entrepreneur Ross and his wife, Linda, heiress to her late father Kirk Kerkorian's multibillion-dollar fortune, recently attended the U.S. premiere of a Colombian auteur's ...

It died with the passing, this month, of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, the Las Vegas tycoon who built an empire on bold bets and gut instincts, The Economist argues in an oped. Kerkorian was a ...

He can't give it up. Earlier this month, Kirk Kerkorian's claim that he was fooled into agreeing to the 1998 "merger of equals" that turned into a Daimler takeover was denied. Everyone was glad ...

In fact, it was the third time that the late mogul Kirk Kerkorian opened "the largest hotel in the world," after The International (1969) and the first MGM Grand (1973). More than thirty years ...

What makes him powerful: Kerkorian stepped down as director in 2011 of MGM Resorts International, the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas strip. It counts the Bellagio, the Mirage ...

Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian was an investor in the Hughes mold. Nicknamed the "Father of the Megaresort," Kerkorian bought the Flamingo in 1968, and completed the International Hotel in July 1969.

Remembering the legendary Kirk Kerkorian: 'He paved the way for the modern activist' The current generation of activist investors owes a major debt of gratitude for the pioneering work done half a ...

Boyd School of Law, the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, the School of Nursing, and the College of Education.