john hennessy is widely considered one of the greatest presidents in stamford history. He's transformed the school, doubled the endowment from 11 to 22 billion dollars. Hennessy decided he wanted to start a graduate programme kind of like the road scholarship. Every year it would bring 100 of the brightest, most polished college grads from around the world and let them apply their minds to the problems of the world.
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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