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road as a traveling salesman and only

three years before he taught his first

class in public speaking, the school sees

itself as “educating leaders who make a

difference in the world.” President George

W. Bush is a graduate, as are an

impressive collection of World Bank

presidents, U.S. Treasury secretaries,

New York City mayors, CEOs of companies

like General Electric, Goldman

Sachs, Procter & Gamble, and, more notoriously,

Jeffrey Skilling, the villain of

the Enron scandal. Between 2004 and

2006, 20 percent of the top three executives

at the Fortune 500 companies

were HBS grads.

HBS grads likely have influenced

your life in ways you’re not aware of.

They have decided who should go to

war and when; they have resolved the

fate of Detroit’s auto industry; they play

leading roles in just about every crisis

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