GORDON LOGAN
An MBA gave Vietnam veteran Gordon Logan a boost in his business career, and now his company, Sport Clips Haircuts, is providing opportunities for other veterans to get the education required to realize their dreams.
Logan, who left a job at chemical company Dow-Badische to join the Air Force in 1969, commanded a C-130 transport plane flying over South Vietnam in spring 1973, after the January peace treaty that ended American combat there. He helped relocate refugees who had been displaced by the fighting. Logan also flew missions to support Cambodians battling the communist Khmer Rouge insurgency.
After the war, he got his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, worked in Houston as a consultant for Price Waterhouse and became an Austin-based franchisee and later co-owner of hair salon chain Command Performance. In
