Top MBA programs that produce Fortune 500 CEOs
Many young business professionals are obsessed with choosing the best MBA program for them. They rely on advice from colleagues, mentors, and the numerous guides and rankings published by experts.
Four popular MBA rankings have the following business schools in the top 5:
Financial Times: LSE, UPenn, Harvard, Insead, Stanford
US News: Stanford, Harvard, MIT, UPenn, Northwestern
Businessweek: Northwestern, Chicago, Harvard, Stanford, UPenn
The Economist: Chicago, Dartmouth, Berkeley, Harvard, Navarra
However, if one’s goal is to become the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, perhaps one should look no further than a list compiled by Fortune on which MBA programs have produced the most Fortune 500 CEOs.
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5. Stanford Graduate School of Business
Miles White, Abbott Laboratories
Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner
4. Cornell - Johnson School of Business
Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods
Mark Bertolini, Aetna
Daniel Hesse, Sprint Nextel
3. Northwestern - Kellogg School of Management
Gregg Steinhafel, Target
Ellen Kullman, DuPont
Thomas Wilson, Allstate
2. Columbia Business School
Warren Buffett*, Berkshire Hathaway
Vikram Pandit, Citigroup
Robert Stevens, Lockheed Martin
James P. Gorman, Morgan Stanley
*Buffett has a master's of science in economics.
1. Harvard Business School
Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric
Jamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase
Charles Haldeman Jr., Freddie Mac
W. James McNerney Jr., Boeing
Steven Kandarian, MetLife
Louis D'Ambrosio, Sears Holdings
Lynn Elsenhans, Sunoco
John Hess, Hess Corp.
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China
South Korea
Japan