Early Life and Education
Larry Fink grew up in a Jewish family in Van Nuys, California, where his mother was an English professor, and his father owned a shoe store. He earned a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1974. He then received an MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management (then known as the UCLA Graduate School of Management) in 1976.
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