Of the 500 CEOs in question, 174 have M.B.A.s and 59 have law degrees. Nearly 200 of the CEOs have no graduate-level degree. Nineteen of the 500 CEOs attained no college degree, and many were college dropouts turned visionaries in the technology sector, like Oracle Corp.'s top executive and now billionaire Lawrence J. Ellison. A few retail executives also worked their way to the corner office by way of humble beginnings on the sales floor, like James A. Skinner of McDonald's, who started as a restaurant manager, and Brian J. Dunn of Best Buy Co., who was once a store associate.
在被调查的500位CEO中,174位有工商管理的硕士,59位有法学院的学位。而将近有200位CEO没有硕士学位。19位CEO甚至没有接受过大学教育,而且还有很多是中途退学然后变成了一个富有远见的科技领域领袖,比如甲骨文公司的CEO劳伦埃里森。少量的零售领域CEO也通过了勤勤恳恳的在基础领域做好销售最终坐上了CEO的位置,比如像麦当劳的詹姆斯斯金纳,他一开始只是一个店长;又或者是百思买的CEO杜恩,他一开始只是一个店长助理。
Below is a table highlighting the 16 schools that awarded at least nine degrees to Fortune 500 CEOs. The rank of their undergraduate program, graduate business school, and law school are also included. The table is sorted by total number of degrees awarded per institution:
下面的这个表格列出了16所学校,这些学校至少产生了9位CEO。这些学校的本科学位和商科排名以及法学院排名也同样列了出来。表格的呈现方式主要以单个大学产出CEO的总量为基准:
下面的数据依次显示为:大学 总共授予学位 本科 工商管理硕士 其他硕士学位 研究生院排名 商学院排名 法学院排名
Harvard University 58 11 33 14 1 1 2
Columbia University 21 3 9 9 4 9 4
University of Pennsylvania 20 6 9 5 5 5 7
University of Wisconsin--Madison 17 11 3 3 45 27 28
Dartmouth College 16 12 4 0 9 7 N/A*
Stanford University 16 7 6 3 5 1 3
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 14 5 7 2 29 12 9
University of Notre Dame 11 9 0 2 19 31 22
University of Texas--Austin 11 8 3 0 45 16 15
Cornell University 10 7 3 0 15 18 13
Northwestern University 10 2 6 2 12 4 11
Ohio State University 10 5 2 3 56 21 34
University of California--Los Angeles 10 4 3 3 25 15 15
University of Virginia 10 4 4 2 25 13 10
Indiana University--Bloomington 9 3 5 1 75 23 27
Princeton University 9 9 0 0 2 N/A N/A