UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

A matchmaker was involved. After graduating from Harvard and serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, Ted Bauer worked as a securities analyst on Wall Street and at night attended business school at New York University. In his fifties, he co-founded AIM Investments in Houston. When the company was 20 years old, Mike Cemo, a University of Houston graduate and creator of AIM's national sales powerhouse, discovered that the company had 400 employees from his alma mater. He suggested to UH and Ted Bauer that they should talk. Obviously, there was a synergy between the school and AIM that was contributing heavily to the company's success... On July 12, 2000, a sixty-year-old business school, formerly known as the College of Business Administration at the University of Houston, received the largest up-front award to any single college in the history of the university. Eighty-one year-old Ted Bauer endowed the college with a gift of $40 million. The business school took his name, becoming..

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Primary location: Houston United States