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Article: The Business of Being President.(George W. Bush's business background)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 12, 2001
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Being U.S. chief executive is akin to being a Fortune 500 CEO. Insight looks at how George W. Bush's Harvard Business School training may shape his leadership of the government.
Twenty of the first 42 men who have held the office of president of the United States were trained as lawyers. Of the others -- a mix of military heroes, a few farmers and a couple of teachers -- only a handful hailed from business management. The 43rd U.S. chief executive, George W. Bush -- a graduate of the famed Harvard Business School and the first president to hold a master's degree in business administration -- has been trained the way America trains the chief executive officers of ...