Perelman Pledges $100 Million to Columbia Business School

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Years from now, students at Columbia Business School will go about their studies in a pair of buildings named for two Wall Street giants. One is Henry R. Kravis. The other is now Ronald O. Perelman.

Mr. Perelman, a billionaire and longtime deal maker, has pledged $100 million to Columbia Business School, the university announced on Thursday. The donation ties the record for the biggest gift ever to the university, which was set in 2010 by Mr. Kravis, a co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company.

The money will go toward the construction of new facilities at the planned Manhattanville campus, a $6.3 billion project that is expected to be completed in the next two decades. With Mr. Perelman’s donation, the business school has raised $455 million of a $600 million goal.

One of the new buildings, expected to open within the next decade, will be called the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Business Innovation.

“Columbia Business School has its finger on the pulse of the changing nature of business education,” Mr. Perelman, the chairman and chief executive of MacAndrews & Forbes, said in a statement released by the university. “The school’s commitment to developing transformative business thinkers is unparalleled.”

Mr. Perelman, who received a master’s degree in business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is a longtime member of Columbia Business School’s board of overseers. Three of his children went to business school at Columbia, according to Christine Taylor, a spokeswoman.

“Ronald O. Perelman has long valued and supported business education and innovation in New York City,” R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, said in a release. “We are extremely grateful for his vision and generosity, and this gift will allow us to reach a new phase in the school’s expansion into Manhattanville.”

In addition to the gifts from Mr. Perelman and Mr. Kravis, the business school has received $25 million from Leon G. Cooperman, chairman and chief executive of Omega Advisors.

In February, Mr. Perelman gave $25 million to the University of Pennsylvania to build a new facility called the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics.