Richest MBAs in the world

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Last weekend I stumbled upon the Forbes website while reading some finance related news, and found their list of the World's Billionaires:
https://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/bil ... _Rank.html

Just curious to see what these people did for a living, I checked some of them. I saw many MBAs, so I decided to share with you the MBAs of the top 100 of their list, and the business school they graduated from:

The World's Billionaires, Forbes.com
Rank in the top 100	Name	Citizenship	Business School	Net Worth in Billion USD
23	Michael Bloomberg	United States	Harvard	18
33	Steven Ballmer	United States	Stanford	14.5
36	Anil Ambani	India	Wharton	13.7
45	John Paulson	United States	Harvard	12
48	Abigail Johnson	United States	Harvard	11.5
51	Susanne Klatten	Germany	IMD	11.1
52	Ronald Perelman	United States	Wharton	11
62	Philip Knight	United States	Stanford	10.2
63	Ricardo Salinas	Mexico	Tulane University	10.1
64	Ernesto Bertarelli	Switzerland	Harvard	10
64	George Kaiser	United States	Harvard	10
70	Alexei Mordashov	Russia	University of Northumbria	9.9
86	Kumar Birla	India	London Business School	7.9
89	Ananda Krishnan	Malaysia	Harvard	7.6
93	Len Blavatnik	United States	Harvard	7.5
93	Nobutada Saji	Japan	UCLA	7.5

If you go through the list, you will see many drop outs from college, many from Stanford, many from Harvard. Looks like many found their biggest idea in the classroom and considered not worthy finishing college and made their startup right away.

gtr022001 · Answer

heh, some motivation for us

bb · Answer

You get my kudos immediately for putting this into a table!

allbusiness · Answer

interesting info

cano · Answer

Thank you!

I get really annoyed by those slides where you can see only one person at a time. If you want to compare, you have to go back and forth, you get lost and forget the information you were looking for. Not really convenient for people like us that work with spreadsheets and tables all day long. Somehow we are built to see information in cells and columns. It's much more interesting.

BM · Answer

This is actually an interesting way to view business schools. At the very least, the complete list is more enlightening than the EIU rankings.

brainhurt · Answer

It's unbelievable that John Paulson has made it into the top 50 richest in the world, and (based on my quick skim down the list) the 3rd wealthiest investor behind only Soros and Buffett. Just 3 years ago, he was a relative unknown!

Av · Answer

Thanks for taking the time to put this together. +1

gurpreetsingh · Answer

I m thinking of creating a table by ranking those who have created the table on Gmat Club :wink:

Just kidding.

billyy2288 · Answer

I also think so.

Dawgie · Answer

I'm going to Tulane for sure.

shaselai · Answer

tulane for me - thats vandybelt right?

devashish · Answer

2 Indians ... not bad !!!

shaselai · Answer

i will be the next asian on that list :p

Dawgie · Answer

Are dawgs allowed?

shaselai · Answer

only if they are asian

eiustempore · Answer

Cool thread, really motivating to see MBAs who climbed up the billionaire ladder. It shows how school name helps, but what really matters is ideas, discipline, and investing smartly over time.

If you want up to date case studies or asset breakdowns for top MBAs + business people,  Net Worth  has some interesting profiles worth checking out.

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