Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> October 2, 2000
LAURENCE E. HIRSCH was elected Chairman of the Board of Centex
Corporation in July 1991. Mr. Hirsch has been Chief Executive
Officer of Centex Corporation since July 1988. He joined the
company as President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of
the Board of Directors in 1985. He also serves as Chairman of the
Board of Centex Construction Products, Inc., a public company in
which Centex owns a 65% interest. Centex Corporation, a New York
Stock Exchange company with revenues of over $6 billion, is one
of the nation's largest home builders, mortgage loan originators
and general building contractors and has housing operations in
the United Kingdom and Mexico. FORTUNE magazine currently ranks
Centex as the nation's 'Most Admired' engineering and
construction company. Prior to joining Centex, Mr. Hirsch was
President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Southdown,
Inc., in Houston, Texas. An attorney, he previously had been a
partner in the Houston-based law firm of Bracewell & Patterson.
Mr. Hirsch received a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from the Villanova
University School of Law in Villanova, Pennsylvania. He is a
native of New York City. Currently, Mr. Hirsch serves on the
Board of Directors of Belo Corporation and Luminex Corporation.
He is also an Advisory Director of Heidelberger Zement, A.G. He
is a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the
Board of Consultors of Villanova Law School. Mr. Hirsch is a
member of the Board of Directors of Methodist Hospitals of Dallas
and is an Honorary Director of Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas. Profile
history, development, markets, and your view of the firm's future
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Mr. Hirsch: Centex is the most diversified
