Starting this year, the building housing Questrom School of Business will have a new abbreviation. An email sent to the Boston University community said the building would be referred to HAR, as in the Rafik B. Hariri Building.
“[The building] will appear on student schedules and elsewhere as HAR,” Christine McGuire, associate vice president of BU, wrote in the email. “The previously used acronym, SMG, has been phased out as related to the physical space at 595 Commonwealth Avenue.”
This decision was made to emphasize the business school’s new name and to avoid confusion, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.
“Say you come to BU in a couple of years,” Riley said. “You may have no idea why the building is called SMG, since it is now Questrom School of Business.”
BU’s School of Management, formerly known as SMG, was renamed Questrom School of Business last March following a $50 million donation from alumnus Allen Questrom and his wife Kelli Questrom.
The building, opened in 1996, was named after Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon and a former trustee of Boston University. Aside from Questrom, the building is also houses some administrative offices.
