Billionaire hedge fund manager ken griffin gives a hundred and 50 million dollars to harvard. The president of the university says it is opening its gates wider to 'the most talented students in the world, no matter their economic circumstances' i'm just curious about whether how common or how howuh, how often do you run into the two back lash to people saying, enough with some of these large am i a lonely voice? Is this something that you have encountered a lot and think about a lot?
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking? And why has it proven so difficult for other philanthropists to follow his lead?
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