On being an English major: “Because I was an English major, I loved journalism, I thought perhaps I’d go back to journalism school or law school,” Jung said during her speech. “ To be standing here, and saying, ‘I now run a $10 billion global company’-I would’ve said, ‘Couldn’t be possible, that is not an imagined career path, not an imagined journey.’ Things have certainly taken a wonderful, but different, path.” “What I find myself doing was pretty unimaginable for me in 1979, after I finished my much-loved thesis on Katherine Mansfeld and my junior papers on Virginia Woolf,” Jung told students in a 2012 speech at her alma mater. On whether she had ever imagined being a Fortune 500CEO: A trailblazer for female CEOs, Jung finds it hard to believe how a Princeton bookworm came to lead the world’s largest direct cosmetics seller, where she was chief from 1999 to 2012. in English Literature, Princeton University, 1979 Stanford Graduate Business School via Flickrĭegree: B.A. I learned more there than in college about the worlds of work and business.” After three years, Schultz joined a Swedish drip coffee maker manufacturer before moving to Starbucks as director of marketing in 1982. “ After a year, I went back to New York and got a job with Xerox, in the sales training program. On getting his start in business: “ After graduating from college in 1975, like a lot of kids, I didn’t know what to do next… I took some time to think, but still no inspiration came,” Schultz wrote in his memoir. No one ever helped me see the value in the knowledge I was gaining.” “ To my parents, I had attained the big prize: a diploma. I maintained a B average, applying myself only when I had to take a test or make a presentation,” Schultz wrote in his 1999 business memoir, Pour Your Heart Into It. “ During senior year, I also picked up a few business classes, because I was starting to worry about what I would do after graduation. On worrying about his post-college job prospects: A first-generation college student, Schultz grew up in a working-class family in the Projects of Canarsie in Brooklyn, and later attended NMU on a football scholarship. in Communications, Northern Michigan University, 1975
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