Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only entrepreneur who ditched Harvard in pursuit of something bigger. Samuel Adams founder Jim Koch built a $3 billion alcohol empire, but it wasn’t the Ivy League school that set him on that path.
It was 1978, and Koch had just completed his second year of Harvard Business School’s JD/MBA program. He said the program allowed students to do law school and business school at the same time, and often led to a career as a corporate lawyer or working for a big company. But by the end of his second year, Koch was questioning if that path was truly for him.
