How much of a donation would it be to get HBS renamed in your honor like Wharton, Booth, Stern, Tuck, etc?

I was just thinking about this as a curiosity? Would definitely have to be in the billions. Many years of HBS name-recognition to rebuild. 

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

That's a comp for sure. Harvard is more prestigious and well-known, and HBS more than their med school. What's our multiple?

 

I personally think it's crazy and interesting how those names you mentioned, are much more recognizable and prestigious than the underlying university. No one knows UPenn

 
trying_my_best

I personally think it's crazy and interesting how those names you mentioned, are much more recognizable and prestigious than the underlying university. No one knows UPenn

I thought this was a joke and then I looked downthread...

University of Pennsylvania is a far more recognizable brand than Wharton.  Understand that you exist in a finance bubble, and the way that 99.99% of the world thinks and lives is vastly different than you.  Which isn't a bad thing... but Penn is (arguably) the country's oldest secular university, Ivy League school, founded by one of the seminal figures in the country's history, etc etc.  Wharton is a great business school, but outside of Wall Street it doesn't have the same cachet.

 

Man, ole Joe Wharton got a helluva deal back in 1881. Donated 100k (3.14 MM adj. for inflation) and got the whole school named after him. 

 
momo220

Man, ole Joe Wharton got a helluva deal back in 1881. Donated 100k (3.14 MM adj. for inflation) and got the whole school named after him. 

The whole school isn’t named after him.

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