Lyman Wood says he still gets solicitation letters from Harvard every year, even though he's never given his alma mater a dime.
It's not that he doesn't have the means to contribute, or that he has any personal issues with the school at which he earned both a bachelor's degree and an MBA nearly 50 years ago. He just doesn't see the point.
"They have a $30 billion endowment ... they don't need my money, while plenty of other people do," said Wood, who told BusinessWest that he doesn't send checks to Cambridge because he has no idea how that money might be used and, more importantly, because no matter where it went, it probably wouldn't make much of an impact on a community …
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