Who Landed The Best Graduation Speakers?

Stanford's Phil Knight

Stanford alum Phil Knight

 

Stanford

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Date: June 14

Speaker: Phil Knight, Co-Founder and Chairman of Nike

Website: Stanford GSB Commencement

 

Kellogg

Northwestern (Kellogg)

Date: June 20

Speaker:Robert Eckert, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Mattel, Inc.

                                                                                    Website: Kellogg Graduation Week

 

UNC

North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)

Date: May 18

Speaker: Not Announced (CEO of a Fortune 500 Company)

Website: Kenan-Flagler MBA Graduation

 

Wharton

Wharton School (Penn)

Date: May 18

Speaker: David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group

Website:  Wharton Graduation

 

 

Columbia

Columbia Business School

Date: May 18

Speaker: Roger Altman, Founder and Executive Chairman of Evercore Partners

Website: Columbia Graduation

 

McCombs

Texas (McCombs)

Date: May 16

Speaker: Robert B. Rowling, Founder of TRT Holdings (Holding Company for Omni Hotels and Gold’s Gym)

Website: McCombs Graduation

 

Emory

Emory (Goizueta)

Date: May 10

Speaker: No Speaker

Website: MBA Graduation Schedule)

 

 

Darden

Virginia (Darden)

Date: May 18

Speaker: Student Speakers

Website: Darden 2014 Graduation

 

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Cornell (Johnson)

Date: May 24

Speaker: Dean Soumitra Dutta

                                                                                               Website: Cornell Commencement Weekend

 

Harvard

Harvard Business School

Date: May 29

Speaker: Salman Khan (May 28 – Class Day)

Website: HBS Graduation

 

Sloan

MIT (Sloan)

Date: June 5

Speaker:Joaquin E. Bacardi III, President and CEO of Bacardi Corporations

Website: MIT Sloan MBA Convocation

 

 

BoothChicago (Booth)

Date: June 14

Speaker: Not Specified

                                                                                               Website: Chicago Booth Ceremonies

 

Ross

Michigan (Ross)

Date: May 2

Speaker: Dave Ulrich, Co-founder and Partner, The RBL Group

Website: Ross Commencement

 

 

Georgetown-MBA

Georgetown (McDonough)

Date: May 16

Speaker: Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and CEO of TIAA-CREF

Website: Georgetown Commencement

 

 

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