An $8 million anonymous donation will help propel MSU’s business school to new heights nationwide.

The gift, announced Monday by university officials, will benefit MSU’s soon-to-be-completed Executive Development Center and calls for the complex to be named in honor of Jim Henry, who in November stepped down as dean of the Eli Broad College of Business and the Eli Broad Graduate School.

He was one of the original minds behind the complex - a 98,000-square-foot facility that Henry says will provide many benefits to not only for those in the business college, but other students as well.

“The EDC