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And Georgetown's School of Business Goes To…

by | Jul 12, 2009 | Lebanese Abroard | 6 comments

…Rafik Hariri:

Dear Members of the Georgetown University Community:

I am pleased to share some exciting news about the new home for the McDonough School of Business. Tomorrow we will announce that the new building will be named the Rafik B. Hariri Building.
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This $20 million naming gift through the Hariri Foundation was made possible by Saad Hariri (B’92), the newly designated Prime Minister of Lebanon and son of Rafik Hariri.

Earlier this year, AUB inaugurated the Rafik Hariri School of Nursing. Are universities the next investment cash cow? I mean why would you want an SOB named after you?

6 Comments

  1. iglina on July 13, 2009 at 1:58 am

    Boston’s school of Management is also named after Rafik Hariri.

    • Jad Aoun on July 13, 2009 at 12:42 pm

      Hi iglina, thanks for the info.
      So there must be some benefit to having University Buildings named after you. Maybe it’s like Monopoly, the more things you have of one color, the more you can charge.

  2. iglina on July 13, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    or maybe it’s because prestigious universities allowed your sons to go there, doing nothing and still get graduated :p

    • Jad Aoun on July 13, 2009 at 2:43 pm

      LOL. Well it seems to qualify them to run a country.

  3. SL on July 13, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Universities are business after all.
    They peddle their Logos with your name on them.

  4. Phil on July 13, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    Interesting article about Georgetown. It seems that more and more colleges are making important strides to improve their esteemed universities.