How Universities Calculate the Price of Naming Opportunities, and More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
October 16, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- How do universities and colleges calculate the price tag for an endowed professorship or other naming opportunities for donors? Catherine Rampell, economics editor, at The New York Times examines that question on the newspaper’s Economix blog.
- With the Obama administration focused on spurring social innovation, Bob Giloth, director of the family economic success program at the Annie. E. Casey Foundation, wonders if the government and others should take a look at innovation efforts that have failed and learn from them. His views appear on his personal blog.
- Are so-called social entrepreneurs predominantly white and graduates of business schools? Marcia Stepanek, a blog writer for JustMeans, a Web site about businesses with charitable missions, raises this question.
- The design for the new Philadelphia home of the Barnes Foundation art collection would probably cause its founder to “erupt in one of his famous rages,” if he was still alive, writes Witold Rybczynski, in Slate magazine.
