MBA: The Fortune Elite’s Preferred Degree by: John A. Byrne on May 03, 2011 | | 17,688 Views May 3, 2011 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Outside of Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, Cornell and Stanford, no other business school has more than a single CEO among the top 100. The Sloan School at MIT has Ford Motor’s Alan Mulally, Chicago’s Booth has Chevron’s John Watson, Yale’s School of Management has PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Berkeley’s Haas School has Intel’s Paul Otellini, and Wharton has Sysco’s William DeLaney. While it clearly helps to have an MBA from a highly ranked school, there are a good number of CEOs on the list who smartly leveraged their degrees from second-tier schools. Consider Verizon’s Ivan Seidenberg, who earned his MBA from Pace University in New York, or AT&T’s Randall Stephenson, who got his MBA from the University of Oklahoma. Or take Fannie Mae’s Michael Williams, whose resume has an MBA from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and McKesson’s John Hammergren, who got his MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati. MBA CEOS OF FORTUNE 100 COMPANIES School CEO Alumus & Year Fortune Rank & Company Harvard Business School Jeffrey R. Immelt, 1982 6. General Electric Harvard Business School James Dimon, 1982 13. J.P. Morgan Chase Harvard Business School Charles E. Haldeman, 1974 20. Freddie Mac Harvard Business School W. James McNerney, 1975 36. Boeing Harvard Business School Steven A. Kandarian, 1980 46. Met Life Harvard Business School Louis J. D’Ambrosio, 1992 57. Sears Holdings Harvard Business School Lynn L. Eisenhans, 1980 68. Sunoco Harvard Business School John B. Hess, 1977 74. Hess Corp. Columbia Business School Warren Buffet, 1951* 7. Berkshire Hathaway Columbia Business School Vikram S. Pandit, 1980 14. Citigroup Columbia Business School Robert J. Stevens, 1987 52. Lockheed Martin Columbia Business School James. P. Gorman, 1987 63. Morgan Stanley Northwestern (Kellogg) Gregg W. Steinhafel, 1979 33. Target Northwestern (Kellogg) Ellen J. Kullman, 1983 84. DuPont Northwestern (Kellogg) Thomas J. Wilson, 1980 89. Allstate Cornell (Johnson) Irene B. Rosenfeld, 1977* 49. Kraft Foods Cornell (Johnson) Mark Bertolini, 1984 77. Aetna Cornell (Johnson) Daniel R. Hesse, 1977 85. Sprint Nextel Stanford Miles D. White, 1980 69. Abbott Laboratories Stanford Jeffrey L. Bewkes, 1977 95. Time Warner Chicago (Booth) John S. Watson, 1980 3. Chevron Texas-Austin (McCombs) James J. Mulva, 1969 4. ConocoPhillips Drexel University Michael J. Williams, 1983 5. Fannie Mae London School of Economics Daniel F. Akerson* 8. General Motors MIT (Sloan) Alan R. Mulally, 1982 10. Ford Motor Oklahoma (Price) Randall L. Stephenson 12. AT&T Xavier John H. Hammergren, 1987 15. McKesson Pace Ivan G. Seidenberg, 1981 16. Verizon New York (Stern) George S. Barrett, 1988 19. Cardinal Health Minnesota (Carlson) John G. Stumpf 23. Wells Fargo West Texas A&M William R. Klesse 24. Valero Energy UCLA (Anderson) R. David Yost, 1970 27. AmerisourceBergen SMU (Cox) Edward B. Rust, 1975 37. State Farm Ins. Yale School of Management Indra Nooyi, 1980 43. PepsiCo Berkeley (Haas) Paul S. Otellini, 1974 56. Intel University of Windsor Sergio Marchionne, 1985 59. Chrysler Wisconsin Steven A. Burd* 60. Safeway Northern Illinois University Craig R. Herkert 61. Supervalu Indiana (Kelley) John T. Chambers, 1975 62. Cisco Systems Virginia (Darden) John R. Strangfeld, 1977 64. Prudential Financial Pennsylvania (Wharton) William J. DeLaney III, 1982 67. Sysco Georgetown (McDonough) Gregory M.E. Spierkel 75. Ingram Micro Pepperdine (Graziadio) Michael B. McCallister, 1983 79. Humana * Indicates a master’s degree in economics or finance. Listed in order of the schools with the most MBA alumni among the Fortune 100, or when there is only one alum from a school, by the rank of the CEO’s company on the Fortune 100 list. DON’T MISS: THE VALUE OF THE MBA DEGREE or STAY IN SCHOOL: YOU’RE NOT MARK ZUCKERBERG Previous PagePage 2 of 2 1 2 Questions about this article? Email us or leave a comment below. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.