Universities are not fast food restaurants, the reputation resides in the faculty, and they’re not replicable like fast food recipes or supply chains. “Harvard London” will be a completely different school with its own reputation (with a little bit of halo effect from the brand of course), just like no one mistakes UC Riverside for Berkeley. Unless you’re advocating for some remote teaching sort of deal.
Edit: In addition, some people only attend Harvard and co. for the networking opportunities.
"Unless you’re advocating for some remote teaching sort of deal."
I naturally expected that this would be the case. At the very least, record the lectures in 8K and stream them to other campuses (there would be major timezone differences).
Isn't there already plenty of that out there? If all you want is recorded lectures, you can have that today.
I can think of one university that went the fast-food style franchise route: DeVry