What would it take for you to buy a piece of Harvard?
Harvard Medical School is offering to name the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research after a donor who gives $100 million. What would it take for you to buy a piece of Harvard? These examples, in today’s dollars, may give you a clue...
Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professorship (formerly Cornel West, now Henry Louis Gates) $4 million
Hauser Hall $18 million
Wyss House (renamed from Sherman Hall) $27 million
Widener Book Fund (your name on as many dollars of Widener books) minimum $10,000
Widener Library $68 million ($3.5 million, 1915)
Annenberg Hall (renovation) $35 million
Lewis International Law Center (first building named after an African American) $4 million
Wasserstein Professorship in Public Interest Law $3 million
Quincy Jones Professorship of African-American Music $3.5 million
William Henry Bloomberg Professorship $4 million
Bin Laden Endowment (fellowships at Design and Law Schools) $3 million
Adolphus Busch Hall $4.7 million ($265,000, 1917)
Lavietes Basketball Pavillion $4 million
Whipple VanNess Jones Professorship (withdrawn from Andrei Shleifer) $25 million
Maxwell Dworkin Building $13 million each from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, named after their mothers’ maiden names.
Loker Commons $10 million
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