Despite our best efforts to find US Citizens who had both a technical undergraduate degree with some experience in their fields and then earned an MBA from a top school iit proved to be very difficult .

We ended up most often with a person who had come into the uS legally with a Green Card and then ultimately became US Citizens .

Often these were men who had been educated at the highest rated Technical College in India . They have to score very high on a National Exam to get accepted .

These people had an ungodly work ethic . They would just never quit until the task was completed and accepted . A person could come to our office floor at 8 PM and think that it was 1 in the afternoon the place just buzzed .

One of my guys had an Undergraduate Degree from the top Tech. College in India , then a Masters in Engineering from the University of Chicago followed by a PHD in Metallurgical Engineering from Ohio State University . I found him at Carnegie Mellon where after 10 years with US Steel he earned his MBA with highest honors .
He ran my Planning Group which did a great deal of mathematical modeling to forecast among other things customer behavior .

We had a very smart chairman who had a very expansive vision but also knew what was going on within his company . In fact Warren Buffet became a significant shareholder which gave us the necessary capital to constantly buy up other institutions which fit our business style .
It was a great run . Part of me never wanted to retire but there comes a time . The weekly travel , the 60+ hour work weeks being on call 24/7 , one day you look up and realize time to go .