Fraternities and CEOs
 

Although it is a couple of years old, here is a very interesting piece about Greeks in the corporate arena. I don't want to be confused with another poster of inane articles, so please forgive me if this has been posted before.


Forbes article about Greek CEOs

AEPi at Number One.

-Rudey

(How would you vote in their poll?)

How do fraternities and sororities most help college graduates climb the corporate ranks?
_ __ By forming social skills
_ __ By shaping moral character
_ __ By providing an alumni network
_ __ They are not of much help at all

I'd vote for "social skills", but my real belief is "the opportunity to fail" and hopefully learn from it. There's no other campus organization with a real budget of $100,000+, real projects, and real decisions about scheduling, housing, food service, and big parties.

Re: Fraternities and CEOs
 

I love you bunches.

Just to clarify...;)
Sandy Weill, the CEO of Citigroup which is the #1 company in the Forbes ranking, is an AEPi.

However, in terms of #of CEO's per group from the list:
"Beta Theta Pi can boast of 11 such CEOs, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Chi are tied in second at nine, Lamba Chi Alpha has eight, and Alpha Tau Omega seven"

FYI, my boss, the CEO of my company, is an AEPi. No offense, Rudey, but he's a jerk! :p

I know.

We have many other CEOs in AEPi if that means anything. Of course certain private firms and banks which I think are much more prestigious than the ones listed, and have CEOs of several other GLOs, aren't listed by Forbes.

-Rudey
--And your boss is the best so deal with it.

I am not sure what the actual percentage of college graduates are greek (throughout time), but I bet the percentage of greeks that are CEO's is greater than the percentage of greeks coming out of college....IE, if you follow me, greeks are generally better leaders.

Late.

Yes they are, just look at Greek Sites and see Who You know!

Actually Most are and especiall Founders of Companies.

LXA Does Have its share as We all do!:cool:

The reporter misspelled Lambda Chi Alpha in the body of the article.

I find it interesting that some 'big five' groups who do a lot of swaking about being 'big five' are absent from the list.

That might have something to do with a lot of the Fortune 500 companies being founded prior to the founding of the 'big 5'. lol :)

I was surprized to discover that the guy, Thomas Cruickshank (sp?), who replaced Vice President Cheney as Chairman of Halliburton is a Delt.

I think I'll just stop there without comment.

My dad is a CEO of a fairly large small company (if that makes any sense). :) He is a Delta Sigma Pi.

Haha, nice wording in that article. I love how the fraternities "spawned" political leaders.

And I voted for social.

Why Wonder? Of Course We Are Special from the leaning that We Went Thriugh!:) :D :cool:

Haha, since you may in fact be talking about my org...

Honestly, there are a lot of ways to measure things like that. Some orgs have members who were successful in other areas. I think it's great that the fraternities listed have such successful alums, but I never put too much stock in things like this (even when it benefits my own fraternity).

big 5? whats the big 5?

The big 5 accounting firms:
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
KPMG
Ernst & Young
Deloitte & Touche
Arthur Andersen

I thought Lifesaver was referring to the 'big 5', as in TKE, SPE and PKA...etc. You know, the groups that are always trying to be 'biggest in chapter size, and most initiated, and most chapters, and most alumni....etc."

Maybe you're right...it was late and all I saw was "CEO" and "Big 5". I have a friend who worked for KPMG and Price. It's a term thrown around all of the time. I sort of skimmed through the thread:) either way, if ya didn't know, now you know:)

Wouldn't it be the big 4 now?

Why is that? I'm not in accounting so I don't keep up..

Arthur Andersen's collapse after the Enron scandal.

Went from over 100,00 employees to just slightly over 200 employees. Almost all of their client, worldwide, bailed on them.

Ah... yes. I forgot about that. Thanks:)

That's what I thought as well, although it's entirely possible I could be wrong. If so, my last post in the thread makes no sense.

Halliburton was given the contract to reconstruct Cheney's body. The budgeting office does not see a conflict of interest because they had the original contract back in the 1970s. That was from the Onion.

-Rudey

Great line!

Unfortunately, they never finished the job because the trucks with the spare parts got lost somewhee in Iraq.

SuPrIsE!!!!!!!!!!