Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon - MBA, Pace University 1981
While it clearly helps to have an MBA from a highly ranked school, there are a good number of CEOs on the list who smartly leveraged their degrees from second-tier schools.
Consider Verizon's Ivan Seidenberg, who earned his MBA from Pace University in New York, or AT&T's Randall Stephenson, who got his MBA from the University of Oklahoma. Or take Fannie Mae's Michael Williams, who went to Drexel in Philadelphia, and McKesson's John Hammergren, who got his MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati.
It just goes to show that it's the person -- more than the school -- that makes for success.
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Last updated May 05 2011: 2:50 PM ET