Why Harvard Hopes They Call You On A Mission - Businessweek

JetBlue, Bain Capital, Fisher Price, Dell Computers, Bank of Credit Suisse, Deloitte Touche, American Express, and Lufthansa have all had executives who served missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Yeah, they wore white shirts with black name tags, skipped dating for two years, and knocked on doors telling people about the Mormon church. Businessweek magazine, among others, looks at leaders that emerge from two year missions.

God's MBAs: Why Mormon Missions Produce Leaders

Many of the men who trained to be Mormon missionaries have gone on to become among the most distinguished persons in American business and civic life

From the article:

Mormons "compose less than 2 percent of the U.S. population...Yet Latter-Day Saints hold, or have held, a seemingly disproportionate number of top jobs at...major corporations...(I)n 2010 Goldman Sachs hired 31 grads from BYU, the same number it hired from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School."

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