University Of Chicago To Rename Business School After $300M Donor

A financier who made a fortune in the investment business using ideas developed at the University of Chicago has donated $300 million to the graduate business school, which is being renamed in his honor.

It is the largest gift ever to the university, and the largest to any business program in the world.

The donor is 61-year-old David G. Booth, founder and chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors, as well as his wife Suzanne and their two children. The school will be called the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, or "Chicago Booth" for short.

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[mitaka]

It is getting more and more obvious that something is not right with elite B-Schools in the US (Exhibit A - Economic meltdown of '08) and yet they keep on getting the mega-million donations from wealthy donors. It's a shame that even within the same university, a graduate school in humanities or social sciences might have to make do with peanuts and the B-school can sit on an enviable endowment. The US needs more resources to be poured into the education of non-business majors.