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These Ivy League Schools are part of the NACD Education Network.

What is Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania?

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This dean of Harvard Business School is supportive of HBS joining the NACD Education Network and was awarded the 2020 Public Company Director of the Year by NACD.

Who is Srikant Datar?

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This Columbia Business School grad is nicknamed "The Oracle of Omaha."

Who is Warren Buffett?

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This senior NACD executive briefly oversaw Certification from December of 2019 to May of 2020.

Who is Kimberly Simpson?

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The goal for certification registrations this year.

What is 1500?

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This Ivy League School, founded in 1636, is considering joining the NACD Education Network.

What is Harvard University?

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While not an NACD Education Network member yet, the University of Chicago was home to the author of the influential 1970 New York Times article, The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.

Who is Milton Friedman?

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He co-founded LinkedIn in 2002 and received his BS in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science from Stanford in 1990.

Who is Reid Hoffman?

200

This global business school was ranked the best Global MBA in the world by the FT in 2021 and is considering joining the NACD Education Network. 

What is INSEAD?

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The post-nominals for NACD Directorship Certification.

What is NACD.DC?

300

This West Coast University probably wants to be part of the Ivy League....

What is Stanford University?

300

This Wharton professor wrote "Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way" with Ram Charan and Dennis Carey

Who is Michael Useem?

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The Drexel University Governance Institute was named after this former President and CEO of Rohm and Haas, who received his MBA from Drexel in 1972. 

Who is Raj Gupta?

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The longest serving member of the the NACD Certification team.

Who is Anasha Lanford?

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The number of credits required for a Certified Director to maintain their NACD Directorship Certification.

What is 32?

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The business school of this NACD Education Network university is called LeBow College of Business.

What is Drexel University?

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He is the Executive in Residence of the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute at Drexel University and was a member of the steering committee for NACD Directorship Certification®.

Who is Bill McNabb?

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While she dropped out of Stanford before graduating, she was responsible for one of the greatest frauds in recent corporate history.

Who is Elizabeth Holmes?

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This is the unofficial mascot for Stanford University. It is the mascot for the Stanford University band.

What is The Stanford Tree?

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The name of the entity that owns the NACD Directorship Certification Exam.

What is the NACD Corporate Directors Institute?

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Established as King's College by royal charter from King George II of Great Britain in 1754, this NACD Education Network University renamed itself in 1784 following the American Revolution.

What is Columbia University?

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Professor Adolf Berle wrote The Modern Corporation and Private Property, a groundbreaking work on corporate governance, while he was a professor at this NACD Education Network member university.  

What is Columbia University?

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The chair the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on Director Professionalism graduated from Columbia College in 1947. 

Who is Ira Millstein?

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One of the most influential books on investing published in the 20th century, "Security Analysis" by Columbia Business School professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd promoted this investment theory. 

What is value investing?

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The only independent board member that sits on both the NACD and NACD CDI Board.

Who is Brenda Gaines?

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