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Introduction to the CEO Production Thread
One of the most important questions of any business program is what types of positions do graduates of that program attain. Rather than rely one conventional wisdom regarding what types of degrees executives hold and where they received them, it made sense for us to engage in a more empirical, fact-based approach.
While this thread will not provide a definitive answer, it does provide some insight into the education backgrounds of executives at major firms.
This is only a small sample of the entire database I have collected over the years.
This article states that University of Wisconsin and Harvard are two of the the largest CEO producers in the United States:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi ... MI5Fx8d9sM
Update: I have recently added some major firms outside of North America. I hope this additional information is helpful.
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More on CEOs and their higher education background:
http://www.forbes.com/2002/04/25/0425ceoschools.html
This both supports and violates conventional wisdom. On the one hand, Harvard apparently produces more MBA CEOs than any other business school. Of course, it is also one of the largest MBA producers in the world so its rank among CEO producers is reasonable. This violates conventional wisdom in that it suggests that an MBA from Harvard is not a necessary condition for becoming a major CEO- note that there are far more CEOs with no advanced degree at all than those who hold an MBA from HBS. It is interesting that more CEOs hold law degrees or graduate degrees in other fields than those who hold Harvard MBAs. Further, among the ultra elite schools, the companies headed by HBS MBA CEOs have unspectacular returns (but it is unclear how these values were calculated).
Intrigued by these reports on the education backgrounds of high level executives, I have included some raw data in this thread for browsing. Note how many high level executives have education from schools outside of the elite and ultra elite schools.
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Genworth Bios
http://www.genworth.com/press/management.html
CEO: BA Political Science Carleton
An interesting collection of degrees including some MBAs, an MIA, a Masters of Engineering.
MBAs include Missouri, Harvard, Northwestern, American, and NYU.
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CEO
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Altria/Phillip Morris Bios
http://www.philipmorrisinternational.co ... e_bios.asp
http://www.altria.com/about_altria/01_0 ... gement.asp
Another interesting collection of degrees:
There appear to be 4 MBAs all from very well known programs (INSEAD, Penn, UVA, and Stanford)
There were also two JDs, an MA from Cambridge, a Masters of Finance, an Masters in Economy, a Masters in Industial Mgmt (Georgia Tech), a Masters in Industrial Engineering (Purdue), and an MA in marketing. Two executives attended Bocconi but it is unclear at what level.
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Travelocity Bios
http://svc.travelocity.com/about/press/ ... EO,00.html
CEO: Master's in PPE, Oxford University
CFO: MBA Washington University
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Ford Motor
Chair/CEO: MS Mgmt MIT, Bachelor Princeton
Ford Motor Credit Bios
Wholly owned subsidiary of Ford
http://www.fordcredit.com/companyInfo/e ... bios.jhtml
Chair/CEO: BS Business from Memphis State
CFO MBA Michigan State
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Disney Bios
http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporat ... _team.html
CEO: BA English Literature and Theater, Denison University
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Dow Corning Bios
http://www.dowcorning.com/content/about ... x_page.asp
CEO: PhD Organic Chemistry Iowa State
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CEO
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CEO
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CEO
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Intel Bios
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/execbios ... utiveBios&
CEO PhD Materials Science, Stanford
CEO-select: MBA UC Berkeley (May 2005)
CFO: MBA, Kansas
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CEO
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Guidant Bios
http://www.guidant.com/about/management/
CEO MBA Marketing Indiana University BS Pharmacy Purdue
CFO MBA Michigan
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CEO
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CEO
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Kodak Bios
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier. ... cale=en_US
Chair/CEO: MS Mgmt MIT, MBA RIT, BBA Quant Methods Ohio State
CFO: BS, Accounting Penn State
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Bank of America
http://www.bankofamerica.com/newsroom/b ... ioID=index
Chair/CEO: Bachelor Finance Georgia State, Exec Program at Stanford
Only 5 of the 12 executives have any advanced degree.
Three have MBAs and no other advanced degree, one has an MBA and a JD, and one has a JD.
The only MBA program repesented from the top two clusters was UC Berkeley. The other MBA programs included Rutgers, Pepperdine, and Univ of West Florida.
Two executives appear to have participated in executive training (one at Stanford and one at Duke).
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Senior Manager
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Hjort wrote:
WOW!!! You'd imagine that atleast in banking that MBA's would be predominantly in the higher-up positions. I think I saw one or two and they were not from top 15 MBA's.....WOW!
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this post was great thanks guys
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GE Bios
http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinf ... e_bios.htm
Chair/CEO: MBA Harvard, BS Applied Math Dartmouth
[Genworth is included above as well]
Note that the one SVP/Finance CFO with an MBA from Columbia, one President/CEO has an MBA from Chicago, a President/CEO with an MBA from Carnegie, and the Chairman/CEO and CIO/SVP have MBAs from Harvard but that the other MBAs include Robert Morris College and Hofstra, an MS in Mgmt from Purdue. There are as many executives listed with LLB/JD degrees as executives with MBAs from ultra elite schools.
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Merrill Lynch exectuive bios
http://www.ml.com/index.asp?id=7695_8134_8302
Chair/CEO: MBA (Finance) Harvard
CFO MBA Harvard
Columbia and Penn MBAs are well represented among the execs and Harvard Business and Thunderbird have more than one graduate present. Other MBAs programs represented include Michigan State, Penn State, a PG from Univ of Marmara, INSEAD, and Texas Christian
There are at least 4 JD/law and 2 CFAs, 1 MA in Economics/Acctg, and 1 PG in Philosophy.
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