{"id":379,"date":"2008-03-26T19:43:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/26\/two-alums-named-among-barrons-top-30-ceos\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T19:43:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T01:43:27","slug":"two-alums-named-among-barrons-top-30-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/two-alums-named-among-barrons-top-30-ceos\/","title":{"rendered":"Two alums named among Barron&#8217;s top 30 CEOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/mark-hurd-0107.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Mark Hurd\" \/>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB120615216221756939.html?mod=9_0002_b_this_weeks_magazine_home_right&amp;page=sp\">Barron&#8217;s Magazine<\/a>, the weekly financial publication put out by Dow Jones &amp; Company, two of the world&#8217;s top 30 corporate leaders are Baylor grads! (<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/Extra\/WorldsBestCEOs.aspx?page=all\">The article is also on MSN.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hurd, a 1979 graduate and CEO of technology giant Hewlett-Packard, made the list for the first time; Bob Simpson, BBA &#8217;70 and MS &#8217;71, is CEO of XTO Energy and appears on Barron&#8217;s list for the fourth straight year.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Hankamer School of Business students have some big shoes to fill when it comes to following alums like Hurd and Simpson, but given the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/05\/businessweek-again-names-hankamer-among-nations-best-b-schools\/\">sort of honors<\/a> the business school receives every year, I have no doubt they&#8217;ll be up to it.<\/p>\n<p>Sic &#8217;em, business school alums!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Barron&#8217;s Magazine, the weekly financial publication put out by Dow Jones &amp; Company, two of the world&#8217;s top 30 corporate leaders are Baylor grads! (The article is also on MSN.com.) Mark Hurd, a 1979 graduate and CEO of technology giant Hewlett-Packard, made the list for the first time; Bob Simpson, BBA &#8217;70 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}