Columbia Alum Donates to Manhattanville Project

Columbia Business School alumnus Louis Bacon ’81 has made a generous donation to the school from the Moore Charitable Foundation. His donation will go toward supporting the new facilities at the school, which are a part of Columbia University’s Manhattanville project. Bacon founded the Moore Charitable Foundation in 1992 and serves as the Chairman. He is also the founder, chairman, chief executive officer, and principal investment manager of Moore Capital Management, LP, and a member of Columbia Business School’s Board of Overseers.

The Manhattanville  project will create a new campus for Columbia in Upper Manhattan. The campus will be located just north of the University’s Morningside Campus. So far, the school has raised over $440 million for the project. The new campus will serve as a center of academic and civic life, ensuring that Upper Manhattan remains a world-class center of pioneering research and teaching.

The life of the project will span almost three decades. Development for the project includes innovative new buildings for Columbia’s Nobel Prize-winning neuroscience, Columbia Business School, the School of the Arts, an academic conference center and new spaces for art, culture and the community.

The Columbia Business School will be relocated to the Manhattanville campus. The school’s new home will encompass approximately 450,000 square feet and will reflect the fast-paced, high-tech, and highly social character of business in the 21st century. The facilities will create multifunctional spaces where students, faculty members, alumni and practitioners can gather to exchange ideas.

Bacon founded Moore capital, a private investment management firm, in 1989. Prior to founding Moore Capital, Mr. Bacon was a Senior Vice President-Futures at Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. He previously held positions at Walter N. Frank & Co., a NYSE specialist firm, and at Bankers Trust.

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