Tisch to address 1997 Wharton MBA grads Tisch, who earned his MBA from Wharton in 1943, founded the $65 billion Loews Corporation at the age of 23 with the purchase of a hotel in Lakewood, N.J. The corporation now brings in annual revenues of approximately $18.7 billion and employs 34,000 workers world-wide. Loews is a leader in hotel operation; property, casualty and life insurance; watch sales; cigarette production and the operation of gas drilling rigs. "His is truly a success story and one from which our graduates can draw inspiration," Wharton Dean Thomas Gerrity said. Tisch is also chairperson of New York University's Board of Trustees and a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. He is a former president of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York and a trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropists. -- Marisa Katz
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