10. Satya Nadella
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Company: Microsoft
Fortune Rank: 21
MBA: Chicago Booth
Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft for over six years, but joined the company way back in 1992, just before starting his MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He completed his degree in 1996, and over the last five years has also taken positions on the board of directors for Starbucks, Fred Hutch, and his alma mater the University of Chicago.
9. Mary Barra
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Company: General Motors
Fortune Rank: 18
MBA: Stanford
The only other female CEO of a top-30 Fortune 500 company with an MBA, Mary Barra is also the first female CEO of a major automaker. She started her career at General Motors in 1980, when she was a General Motors Institute (Kettering University) co-op student, and followed her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1990.
8. Jamie Dimon
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Company: JPMorgan Chase
Fortune Rank: 17
Jamie Dimon entered the c-suite in 2004 when he was made COO of JPMorgan Chase and progressed to CEO in 2005. He completed his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1982, and is the only figure on this list to have completed his MBA at HBS.
7. David Cordani
Company: Cigna
Fortune Rank: 13
MBA: University of Hartford
David Cordani holds an MBA from the University of Hartford, Connecticut, which he completed in 1995. He’s been at health insurance giant Cigna for almost 30 years, starting his career at the company in 1991.
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