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I should go to Stanford
How big is the college? The bigger the college, the bigger the alumni network. The bigger the alumni network, the more weak ties you have, which are great for career, marriage, and a host of other life attributes. Harvard Business School has figured this out and has classes of 900 compared to Stanford and MIT Sloan of 400.How strong is the affinity... See more
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
It’s no secret that many billion-dollar founders come out of top universities. Stanford, in particular, has a reputation as a startup factory, graduating more billion-dollar founders than any other university—thirty-eight during the time period of my study, compared to twenty-six from Harvard and twenty from MIT. (Among these top three schools, Sta
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
The Yale undergraduate goes to work at McKinsey for two years, then comes to Harvard Business School, then graduates and goes to work Goldman Sachs and leaves after several years to work at Blackstone. Optionality abounds!
Mihir Desai • The Trouble with Optionality
Roughly 200K students graduate with MBAs annually, many of whom spend almost $200K for the privilege. That equates to $40B in aggregated annual spend. While some matriculators return to school to acquire new tangible skills and pivot their careers, many enroll for (1) high-quality network expansion beyond their undergraduate and siloed professional... See more
Aashay Sanghvi • Not Found
Yale has a 16 percent allocation to our good old venture capital category, again way in excess of the 5 percent average among other university endowments.
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
HBR’s successor may come from the same sector: education. Just as Harvard leveraged its intellectual reputation to build a publisher, modern edtechs focused on business may seek to do the same.