Podcast

Michael Milken

Academy of Achievement

Michael Milken is a financier and philanthropist noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds (also called junk bonds) during the 1970s and 1980s, and for his funding of medical research. Milken has also been engaged in philanthropic activities since the early 1980s. He is co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation, Chairman of the Milken Institute, and founder of medical philanthropies funding research into melanoma, …