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Support Smurfit

At UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, we are constantly striving to develop our capabilities. Our ambitious development plans will strengthen our reputation for excellence in business education. Your support plays a vital role in our pursuit of excellence.

Patrons and sponsors

At UCD Smurfit School we recognise that the generosity of our alumni and friends remains key to delivering unmatched educational, career, and community benefits that last a lifetime. 

The School is built upon an extraordinary leadership gift from Dr Michael WJ Smurfit. Many in Irish and International business follow his lead along with the Irish and North American Advisory Boards, alumni and other friends, to provide invaluable support. Thanks to these generous contributions, we attract the best educators and researchers in the world and provide you with leading-edge facilities.

• Denis O’Brien funded the creation of an e-commerce infrastructure throughout the School, including wired and wireless Internet.
• Alumni benefactors funded The Michael MacCormac Chair of Management.
• The Berber Family funded a Chair in Entrepreneurship.
• CRH plc, Elan Corporation and Greencore Group each sponsored a Newman Scholar for the Business Research Programme.Eircom provided a technology-enhanced lecture room.
• Great Plains donated business management software and educational materials.
• Irish Intercontinental Bank contributed towards the Banking & Finance section of the Library and Business Information Centre.
• The North American Board funded the John Sharkey Chair in e-Commerce and the Governor Hugh L Carey Chair in Organisational Behaviour.
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers sponsored a Chair in Accounting.
• The Anthony C Cunningham Chair of Marketing – funded by prominent alumni.Annual contributions to the School are essential for the support of our core programmes and facilitate valuable initiatives that we could not otherwise pursue.
  

We greatly appreciate all contributions, which allow us to further our development and we invite Smurfit alumni and friends to help us cement our position as one of the world’s leading business schools.
Contributions to the School are used to:

• Attract exceptional students
• Recruit world-class faculty
• Advance our research
• Enhance our PhD programme
• Upgrade our facilities
• Maintain cutting-edge technology
• Develop and expand our core programmes
• Improve the student experience of the School