ABSTRACT
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, dropped out after his sophomore year, albeit at Harvard College. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, went to a large, impersonal state university (Illinois). Michael Capellas, CEO first at Compaq Computer and later at MCI, graduated from Kent State, a regional school. Paul O’Neill, CEO of Alcoa and Secretary of the Treasury in the Bush administration, went part-time to Fresno State.2
