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Harvard MBAs Rule?
“Harvard Business School graduates are literally ruling the world,” gushed an article in Fortune (January 8, 2001). The magazine observed that in the last year alone, a whopping number of HBS alumni had taken over the corner office at some of the country’s largest and most prestigious firms, GM and GE among them. As if that weren’t enough, it noted that even the newest occupant of the Oval Office, George W. Bush (MBA 1975), “spent some time hanging at Harvard.”
With HBS producing so many entrepreneurs in recent years, Fortune apparently had forgotten that one of the School’s traditional strengths has been to furnish corporate America with executive leadership at the highest levels. Seeking perspective on this flurry of HBS alumni promotions, the magazine asked Continental Airlines president Gregory Brenneman (MBA 1988) if he thought that this was the Year of the Harvard MBA. Deadpanned Brenneman, “Isn’t every year the Year of the Harvard MBA?”
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