The Harvard IKB School of Engineering
Category: BUSINESS
The good people of Dusseldorf, Germany, and specifically the IKB Bank, which specializes in loans to small and medium-size businesses, has kindly endowed Harvard University's engineering school with a gift of $400m.  Strangely, though, the Harvard Engineering School was renamed after hedge-fund manager John A. Paulson, not IKB, and thereby hangs a tale.
By Jeffrey Sachs, ContributorDirector, Center for Sustainable Development and Sustainable D..., 2015-06-05