{"id":3203,"date":"2025-11-13T16:38:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/?page_id=3203"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:32:40","slug":"20-years-of-tepper-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/tepper-digest\/20-years-of-tepper-school\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years as the Tepper School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Celebrating 20 Years as the Tepper School of Business<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

On November 15, 2004, David Tepper made a historic $55 million donation to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest in its history at the time. To celebrate the naming of the Tepper School of Business, the university’s students, faculty, and staff gathered to form a “sea of red” in Posner Hall. Exactly 20 years later, on November 15, 2024, a similar sea of red washed over Simmons Auditorium as students, alumni, faculty, and staff re-created the moment to celebrate the school’s two-decade anniversary with Tepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During an interview with Carnegie Mellon Today from June 2004, he attributed his success to what he learned as a student. \u201cThe outstanding education I received at Carnegie Mellon gave me the ability to analyze investment options in such a unique way that I am still capitalizing on what I learned there to this day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLearn it, earn it, return it.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>David Tepper, 2004.
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David Tepper has continued to give back to the school. In 2013, he donated an additional $67 million to build the Tepper Quadrangle, home of the Tepper School of Business since September 13, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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