Category:Famous BBA Graduates
Kevin Ozan took his Bachelor of Business Administration at Michigan's Ross School of Business in 1985, became chief financial officer of McDonald's, and later endowed a scholarship for undergraduates at the school he came from. That is the shape of this membership. Where the MBA in this wiki clusters at a handful of graduate schools, the BBA is an undergraduate credential taken at state universities and small private colleges, and it belongs mostly to two groups: members of Congress who came up through business rather than law, and operating executives who ran large companies without a graduate degree in management.
The state-school route into Congress
The BBA is heavily represented in the House and among state officeholders, and the institutions behind it are regional. Ben Ray Lujan took his at New Mexico Highlands University, a Hispanic-serving institution in Las Vegas, New Mexico, before the House and then the Senate. Andrew Clyde attended the University of Notre Dame before completing the degree at Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee. Monica De La Cruz took hers at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tony Wied at St. Norbert College outside Green Bay, Vern Buchanan at Cleary University in Howell, Michigan, Lisa McClain at Northwood University after Lansing Community College, and Pamela Evette at Cleveland State University before becoming lieutenant governor of South Carolina.
The flagship publics supply the rest. Greg Abbott took his at the University of Texas at Austin before a law degree at Vanderbilt, the attorney generalship and the governorship of Texas. Lance Gooden took both a Bachelor of Arts and a BBA at the same university. Austin Scott and Marjorie Taylor Greene both took theirs at the University of Georgia, Glenn Grothman at the University of Wisconsin–Madison business school, Bernie Moreno at Michigan, and Young Kim at the University of Southern California. Two members paired the degree with law: Jason Miyares followed James Madison University with the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at William and Mary, and Francis Suarez followed a finance BBA at Florida International University with a law degree at the University of Florida.
Operating executives without a graduate degree
The corporate half of this category is small and unusually senior. Ed Bastian took his BBA at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York, and runs Delta Air Lines. Hans Vestberg took his at Uppsala University, led Ericsson from Stockholm, and then moved to the United States to run Verizon. Mark Hurd took his at Baylor and led Hewlett-Packard and then Oracle. Kevin Ozan came out of Michigan Ross into a finance career at McDonald's.
Two members show the credential working outside the United States. Ramon Laguarta took both a BBA and an MBA at ESADE in Barcelona before running PepsiCo, and Chung Eui-sun took his at Korea University before an MBA abroad and a career inside the Hyundai group. Kyle Bass took his at Texas Christian University and founded a hedge fund in Dallas rather than joining an established firm.
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