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Harvard For Sale

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Whipple VanNess Jones Professorship (withdrawn from Andrei Shleifer) $25 million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