If you want to be an executive, billionaire, or US president, it’s a good idea to graduate from Harvard Business School.
Founded in 1908, HBS was the first institution in the world to grant a Masters in Business Administration.
The Harvard MBA has since been a hallmark of the elite, with George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and Michael Bloomberg all earning the degree.
We sifted through HBS’s sterling history to find the most powerful, prominent, and financially successful grads that came out of Cambridge.
Walter Haas, Jr., Class of 1939, succeeded his father as the CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. He grew Levi’s from a regional California brand to one of the world’s biggest apparel companies.
1939 MBA Robert S. McNamara served as the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.
After nabbing his MBA in 1942, Philip Caldwell took over as the first non-Ford to run Ford Motor Company, where he led one of the biggest turnarounds in American business history.
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