To Have and Have Not

Now, the mist across the window hides the lines
But nothing hides the color of the lights that shine
Electricity so fine
Look and dry your eyes
--Joe Jackson

While funds dry up in lower tier public institutions, high profile b-schools are engaged in an orgy of spending in order maintain, well, their high profiles.

Some of the numbers are staggering. A 30+ building campus in front of the Charles River at HBS--here at NKU we've yet to put a single dedicated b-school building in the ground. Looks like the minimum facility cost at these schools is $100 million--last I heard the recent round of blue prints had our planned facility at $40-50 million. Naming rights at Stanford, Chicago, Yale: $100 million minimum--cost at NKU: $15 million.

Night and day...