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Andrew Alper, AB’80, MBA’81, has served on the Board of Trustees since 1999 and as chair since 2009. In February he made a gift of $10 million to support the College, Chicago Booth, and Medicine and Biological Sciences. Alper’s gifts to the College include $2.5 million to encourage entrepreneurship and $2.5 million for career support. The gift for career support takes the form of a challenge: donors who give $75,000 or more will have their gifts matched 1:2. “It’s a good deal for donors,” he says. “Everybody likes a deal.” When you were an undergrad, there was minimal career support. How did that affect you? My second year in the College, I decided to try to get some work experience. So I went to the career office, which consisted entirely of a card catalog of index cards with newspaper ads cut out and pasted on them. If you went in and said, “I’m looking for a job,” they would just point to the catalog. So I found an index card with an ad for a job in the credit card fraud detection u

Andrew Alper, AB’80, MBA’81, has served on the Board of Trustees since 1999 and as chair since 2009. In February he made a gift of $10 million to support the College, Chicago Booth, and Medicine and Biological Sciences. Alper’s gifts to the College include $2.5 million to encourage entrepreneurship and $2.5 million for career support. The gift for career support takes the form of a challenge: donors who give $75,000 or more will have their gifts matched 1:2. “It’s a good deal for donors,” he says. “Everybody likes a deal.” When you were an undergrad, there was minimal career support. How did t

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