"What other MBA offers seasoned entrepreneurs as teachers and mentors?" - Akshay Sabhikhi '04
Charles Koch
Charles G. Koch believes so strongly in the free market that he created, and constantly develops, a principled management philosophy that brings the power of the market into all his business. Mr. Koch's market-based management (MBM) philosophy stresses vision, virtue and talent, knowledge processes, decision-making authority, and incentives.
The results speak for themselves. Today, Koch Industries, Inc., is the second-largest privately held company in North America with nearly 30,000 employees in more than 50 countries who generate an estimated $60 billion in sales annually. Mr. Koch attributes this tremendous success to MBM.
As a philanthropist and advocate for liberty and free enterprise, Mr. Koch has invested millions of dollars and countless hours in research institutions, think tanks, and policy groups that study how to advance and sustain a free society and apply the lessons learned to public policy. Among these institutions are George Mason University, and its Institute for Humane Studies and Mercatus Center, Americans For Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, and the Bill of Rights Institute.
The devoted husband and father of two chooses to live and work far from the limelight in Wichita, Kansas, and is quick to credit others for his many successes.
The Acton School is named after Lord Acton, the Victorian scholar of freedom, who said: "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." As an entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to advancing freedom and strengthening the fabric of civil society, Charles G. Koch is an ideal role model for Acton Scholars
