Wisconsin Ties Harvard in
Producing Top CEOs
Two universities have the most graduates who are top chief executive officers, according to a new study. They are the University of Wisconsin and Harvard.
This is the latest finding by executive recruitment company SpencerStuart. The firm annually examines the educational backgrounds of the CEOs of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies.
Harvard and the University of Wisconsin tied with 13 undergraduate alumni each on the list as of April 18, 2008.
Last year, there was a three-way tie among Harvard, Princeton and Wisconsin. Prior to 2004, Harvard alone was the most common school attended by top CEOs.
This is not the first time that Wisconsin has ranked with its Ivy League counterparts in terms of producing business leaders. In previous years, BusinessWeek and Bloomberg Markets also have found Wisconsin to be among the top producers of CEOs of major corporations.
Read the complete SpencerStuart report.
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