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Which Fortune 500 CEOs Have MBAs?

Want to go from MBA to CEO? Find out which top Fortune 500 firms are headed up by MBA graduates, and where they went to business school

By  Abigail Lister

Wed Oct 28 2020

BusinessBecause

6. Jim Farley

Company: Ford Motor

Fortune Rank: 12

MBA: UCLA Anderson

The greenest CEO on this list, Jim Farley was only made CEO of Ford Motors in October 2020, before which he held numerous roles at the company including VP of Global Markets and Executive VP of Global Marketing. He completed his MBA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989, with a specialization in finance. 


5. Sundar Pichai

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Company: Alphabet

Fortune Rank: 11

MBA: Wharton

Sundar Pichai holds an MBA from The Wharton School, and started his business career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company shortly after graduating. However, he soon realized that Google was the right place for him, and joined in 2002, before eventually becoming CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet.


4. John Stankey

Company: AT&T

Fortune Rank: 9

MBA: UCLA Anderson

John Stankey took over as CEO of AT&T in July this year, after spending 35 years at the telecoms company. He has an MBA from University of California, Los Angeles, and put it to good use in 2018 by overseeing AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.


3. Tim Cook

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Company: Apple

Fortune Rank: 4

MBA: Duke Fuqua

Tim Cook has now been CEO of Apple for nine years, starting as an interim CEO in 2011 as Steve Jobs took time out due to his declining health. He has an MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and has used his business acumen to guide Apple to a groundbreaking $2 trillion valuation, making it the most valuable US company.


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