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Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
Topics: News-School NewsPhilanthropy-HBS DonorsEducation-Campus LifeThe lounge area offers many comfortable spaces for study, relaxation, and conversation. (Photo by Brooks Kraft)
Officially opened in January, the Spangler Center has already made a dramatic impact on student life at HBS. The 121,050-square-foot building features a new student dining hall, comfortable lounges, meeting rooms, and a 350-seat auditorium. It also brings together under one roof a number of commercial and MBA Program services (e.g., the Coop, post office, travel center, financial aid, registrar) that were formerly scattered around the campus. The Spangler Center has been praised for its architectural harmony with the rest of HBS’s Georgian campus and for its south-facing orientation, which is seen as symbolic of Harvard’s openness to the local community as the University expands its presence on the Boston side of the Charles River.
Completed after just 22 months of construction, this new HBS landmark was made possible by the generosity of Meredith and C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr. (MBA 1956). They, along with members of their family and various Harvard dignitaries, took part in a dedication ceremony on January 22 attended by several hundred students, staff, alumni, and faculty.
Meredith and Dick Spangler visit the dining hall at lunchtime. (Photo by Richard Chase)
“The Spangler Center will help the HBS community to connect and will make the entire educational experience here even more effective and more powerful,” Dean Kim B. Clark observed at the dedication. “We are enormously grateful to the Spanglers.” For his part, Spangler thanked the thousands of people who had worked on the building in various capacities. He also acknowledged the School’s history, observing that “this building was built on academic foundations put in place by many who preceded all of us.”
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