Jeff sandefer billionaire
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Jeff Sandefer
Jeff Sandefer is an entrepreneur and professor who co-founded the Acton School of Business.[1]
Biography
Sandefer was born in Abilene, Texas.[2] After beginning his business career while still in high school, Sandefer earned a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas.[3] He then received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986.[4]
Sandefer began teaching at the University of Texas in 1990. About his time at Harvard, Sandefer said: "I loved the Socratic Method at Harvard—the idea that questions are more important than answers and being in the shoes of the protagonist, having to make decisions."[5] Sandefer started the Acton School of Business. He was previously named as one of the top entrepreneurship professors by BusinessWeek. He has worked as a director of National Review magazine and served as chairman of the Acton Institute of Religion and Liberty. He was a member of Texas GovernorRick Perry's 21st Century Commission on Higher Education.[6]
Acton MBA
In 2002, Sandef
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Jeff Sandefer started his first business at age sixteen. After earning an MBA, he founded Sandefer Offshore, an oil and gas company that generated over $500 million in profits in less than five years. He then ran Sandefer Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar energy firm.
Over the last fifteen years, Sandefer has worked with entrepreneur-teachers to build a nationally acclaimed entrepreneurship program, winning numerous teaching honors in the process. But ask him about success, and he makes it clear that money and awards aren’t what matter.
“My great-grandfather found his calling as president of a small college and is buried on the campus he worked so hard to build. On one side of his tombstone it says: ‘If you would see his monument, look around.’ This reminds me each of us wants to contribute something meaningful with our lives. On the other side of the tombstone is inscribed, ‘A good name is rather to be had than great riches.’ This reminds me that leading a good life is even more important than what you contribute.”
“We want students who have the intelligence and drive t
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Jeff Sandefer
Jeff Sandefer is President of Sandefer Capital Partners, an energy investment firm with over $500 million in capital.
Sandefer is director of National Review magazine, a board member of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former board member and chair of the Acton Institute.[1]
A graduate of the University of Texas and the Harvard Business School, Sandefer taught entrepreneurship at the University of Texas before founding the Acton School of Business. Acton's MBA program is taught by "entrepreneur-teachers" offering students a "personal introduction" to employers listed on a 66-strong company list. According to Acton's website, "For each of the firms on our Company List, a partner, executive, or alumnus of the program has pledged to personally shepherd a student through the recruiting process if asked to do so by a professor."[2]
Sandefer is the great-grandson of Jefferson Davis Sandefer, who served as the President of Simmons University (later Hardin Simmons University), Austin, for more than 30 years until his death in 1940.
In 1993, The
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