The Knight Foundation said the gift that will be used to shift the scientific approach to cancer treatment, research and ...

Oregon Health & Science University said the couple’s donation would be the largest single gift to a higher-learning ...

Knight’s historic donation makes the Oregon Health & Science University home to one of the nation’s largest cancer institutes ...

Knight is one of America’s most generous philanthropists, according to Forbes data, donating billions of dollars to ...

Phil Knight, the co-founder and chairman of Nike, made a record-breaking donation this week that should make plenty of people ...

Their latest gift to Oregon Health & Science University for its Knight Cancer Institute is the biggest donation the Nike ...

Nike founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, are giving $2 billion to a cancer institute at University of Oregon that bears ...

An Oregon university says Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged a record $2 billion to its ...

Phil Knight is stepping down as Nike Chairman. (Getty) According to Street Insider, Parker has been Nike’s President and CEO since 2006. Parker is not officially taking over for Knight.

Over the past 51 years, Nike cofounder Phil Knight built the company from an idea he had in grad school into one of the biggest companies in the world. With a net worth of $21.6 billion, he's also ...

Nike paid Michael Jordan about $250,000 for the first year; he hadn't played a single game in the NBA at that point. "No, but he'd been Player of the Year in the NCAA," Knight explained.