Largest Donors To Business Schools

Largest Gifts To Business Schools

Gift School Year Donors
$300 million Chicago (Booth) 2008 David Booth
$150 million    Stanford 2011     Robert & Dorothy King
$105 million Stanford 2006 Philip H. Knight
$100 million Columbia 2010 Henry Kravis
$100 million Michigan (Ross) 2006 Stephen M. Ross
$85 million Wisconsin 2007 Alumni Partnership*
$80 million Cornell (Johnson) 2010 David & Patricia Atkinson
$60 million Virginia (Darden) 1999 Frank Batten Sr.
$60 million Northeastern 2012 Richard D’Amore,Alan McKim
$60 million Thunderbird 2004 Samuel & Rita Garvin
$50 million Harvard 2010 Ratan Tata
$50 million Georgia Tech 2012 Ernest Scheller Jr.
$50 million Arizona State (Carey) 2003 William Polk Carey
$50 million Texas (McCombs) 2000 Red McCombs
$50 million Arkansas (Walton) 1996 The Walton Family
$50 million Yale 2010 Ned Evans
$45 million Drexel (LeBow) 2010 Bennett LeBow
$40 million Harvard 2012 James Chao
$40 million Loyola (Quinlan) 2012 Michael Quinlan
$40 million North Carolina State (Poole) 2010 Lonnie Poole
$40 million Houston (Bauer) 2000 Charles T. Bauer
$40 million Pennsylvania (Wharton) 1998 Jon M. Huntsman
$35 million Notre Dame (Mendoza) 2000 Thomas & Kathy Mendoza
$35 million USC (Marshall) 1997 Gordon Marshall

* A group of more than then alumni got together to pool their resources for this gift to the business school at the University of Wisconsin

DON’T MISS CHAO FAMILY GIVES HBS $40 MILLION or $150 MILLION GIFT TO STANFORD PUTS IT IN THE FOREFRONT OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

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