UM business school gets $100 million gift
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The University of Michigan received the biggest gift in its history today, a $100 million check from a New York real estate tycoon to go toward the university&#39;s business school.
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The University of Michigan received a $44 million donation for a Type 1 Diabetes research center from Bill and Dee Brehm. Mr. Brehm is a 75 year old information technology entrepreneur and Michigan alumni.
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HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is funding a new $100m initiative to tackle global climate change.
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As its record-setting campaign heads to the finish line, the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday announced a $10 million gift from State Street Corp. , the largest single contribution from a corporation in the museum's history.
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Former Lesley University president Margaret A. McKenna has a new post: Running the philanthropic arm of megaretailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The Bentonville, Ark., company said yesterday it hired McKenna to run its foundation, which last year doled out more than $270 million to charities.
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The Starr Foundation pledged $100 million to cancer research involving collaboration among four institutions in New York and one in Massachusetts.
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The venture is backed by a large Israeli holding company that has pledged $100 million.
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A New York real estate magnate has given the University of Michigan &#36;100 million, its largest donation ever, and the university's board voted on Thursday to rename the business school for him.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md.  -- The University of Maryland business school plans to give Blackberry wireless devices to all full-time MBA students this fall, an effort to make students technologically savvy and aware that a key to business is being able to access people and information at all times...
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By Gayle Perez, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 13--A business professor at Colorado State University-Pueblo says he wants students in his business-consulting class to experience the real world before they actually step foot in it.
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There's a temptation to gauge the generosity of a community by the number of million-dollar donations made to the local symphony or university, or the number of fundraising records set by the annual cancer ball or school auction. And until recently, thanks to a booming economy and real estate mar...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- When proud alumnus Ken Lay donated $1.2 million in company stock to the University of Missouri five years ago, campus leaders hailed the donation from the then-chairman of Enron Corp.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan is in line to get another substantial gift. The founder of an information technology company who graduated from the university and his diabetic wife are giving
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's endowment fund posted investment gains of 22.1 percent in the year ended June 30, the school said yesterday, helping the endowment to grow $1.6 billion to $9.98 billion.
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Q&A: Ron Alsop talks to Evelyn Williams, a new director at the university, about the growing emphasis on management in business school curriculums.
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The founder of an information technology company and his diabetic wife are giving &#36;44 million to the University of Michigan for creation of a diabetes research center.
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Two students at the Durham, NC, School of Science and Mathematics will split US$100,000 in scholarship money for their cancer research.