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Boardroom Badgers: UW is a surprising CEO breeding ground

When Dick Cheney stepped down as CEO of Halliburton in 2000 to join the Bush ticket, he turned the company’s reins over to a Badger.

Dave Lesar grew up in a bucolic setting outside of Mount Horeb, graduated with an MBA from UW-Madison in 1978 and now heads one of the most politically charged firms in the world.