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Written by Tina Mankowski
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 Fifty years ago, the UW perfected its own heart-lung machine and did the first open-heart bypass surgery in the West. Now advances are coming so quickly that they could put future cardiac surgeons out of business. |
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Four years after earning his UW M.B.A., Yoshihiko Miyauchi helped launch a Japanese corporation that is now worth $8 billion. Along the way he became Japan’s No. 1 advocate for deregulation—and the owner who nurtured Ichiro Suzuki’s baseball career. 
Six alumni who are CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies share secrets of their success -- and how the UW helped jumpstart their careers.
When they start classes this month, more than 6,000 new UW students will already have something in common -- they'll all have read the same book about a remarkable doctor trying to bring 21st-century medicine to the poorest corners of the planet.