HSG Foundation and donations

HSG Foundation thanks all the benefactors

The HSG Foundation’s aim is to support the HSG in its development as one of the internationally leading business universities. It initiates and pools funding activities in order to realise strategically important projects for the HSG and thus makes a contribution towards safeguarding the excellence of research and teaching. As an autonomous charitable foundation, it grew out of the HSG Alumni Foundation in 2013 and is jointly run by HSG alumnæ and alumni, donors and representatives of the University.

In the year under review, the HSG Foundation’s activities continued to focus on the funding of the didactic programme, the construction and funding of the new learning centre SQUARE. Thus the lighthouse project, which was entirely funded by donations, was inaugurated on 11 February 2022 according to plan. With donations amounting to CHF 65m, the SQUARE is the biggest fundraising project in the history of the HSG. More than 1,100 donors made the realisation of the SQUARE vision possible. The SQUARE is where outstanding heads from business, politics and culture meet students, teachers and HSG alumni. The SQUARE is a public place of personal encounters for everyone who wants to become engaged in a constructive dialogue for the future of society and the economy. The SQUARE is intended to have an impact as a new, innovative place of learning where trailblazing didactic forms are developed. In the SQUARE, the HSG Foundation has realised a project of future significance for the HSG.

Board of trustees

Dr. Paul Achleitner (President) Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ehrenzeller (Vice-President) Dr. Urs Landolf (Delegate) Prof. Dr. Tami Dinh Michael Hilti Mathieu S. Jaus Andreas R. Kirchschläger Georg Schaeffler Dr. h.c. Thomas Schmidheiny Urs Wietlisbach

Management

Ernst Risch is responsible for the operative management of the Foundation as its Managing Director.

Donations by private individuals, foundations and companies constitute an increasingly more important supplement to the resources from basic public funding. They enable the HSG to launch innovative projects in order to be able to assume a leading role in teaching and research in the future, too. Whether this concerns chairs, scholarships or infrastructure: thanks to the generous, traditional commitment of alumnæ, alumni and friends of the HSG, substantial developments towards today’s University of St.Gallen could be initiated and implemented. We would like to thank all the benefactors for their extraordinary support. A list of all the benefactors can be found on the homepage of the HSG Foundation. hsg-stiftung.ch | kontakt@hsg-stiftung.ch

Initial and major benefactors of the SQUARE

Hilti Family Foundation Liechtenstein Michael Hilti Thomas Schmidheiny Ursimone Wietlisbach Foundation Ernst Göhner Foundation

Paul and Ann-Kristin Achleitner Credit Suisse Diethelm Keller Group Felix Grisard Martin Haefner Familie Lienhard François-Xavier de Mallmann Henri B. Meier Schweizerische Mobiliar Genossenschaft Christen Sveaas Swiss Re Foundation

Fishing Club Helvetia Insurance HSG Heugümper Club Georg F. W. Schaeffler Senn Resources AG Walter Villiger

Katrin and Christian Abegglen Iwan J. and Monika Ackermann Akris Aquifarm Foundation, Vaduz auviso – audio visual solutions ag Raymond J. Bär Rudi Bindella Hans Bøgh-Sørensen btov Partners AG Toni Calabretti Capvis Angela and Manfred Dirrheimer Kaspar M. Fleischmann Karl Gernandt Mark E. B. Hauri Hess Investment Group Hirschmann Foundation Holcim HRS Real Estate AG HSG Alumni & Amici St. Gallen-Appenzell Chamber of Industry and Commerce Eugen von Keller Walter B. Kielholz Foundation Urs and Susi Landolf Robert G. Lebrecht Joëlle and Christoph Loos Lotex Foundation Wolfram and Ruth Martel Sylvie Mutschler-von Specht Polianthes Foundation Fredy Raas Monika Ribar and Marcel Baumann Manuela and Jürg Schäppi Monika and Wolfgang Schürer Georg and Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Foundation St. Gallen Symposium (ISC and St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies) St. Galler Cantonal Bank Karl Stadler Family Steinegg Foundation Milo Stössel Tarom Foundation Peter and Susanne Wuffli

Major benefactors of further projects of the HSG

Josef Ackermann Angela and Manfred Dirrheimer The late Hans Ulrich Doerig Ernst Göhner Foundation Hilti Family Foundation Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation Lemann Foundation Lienhard Foundation Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St.Gallen Henri B. Meier Thomas Schmidheiny Joachim Schoss STARR International Foundation

You can learn more about the HSG Foundation’s donation projects at hsg-stiftung.ch.