<p>What I said above was that Stanford Business School is a midget compared to Harvard Business School in terms of the institutional resources, both intellectual and financial, the accomplishments and scholarship of its faculty, the success of its graduates, and the overall influence in the field of business administration, both in the academia and in the real world. You can make pretty much the same statement about Stanford Medical School and Stanford Law School. </p>
<p>I do not know how many Nobel Prize winners are currently at Harvard. The university website mentions 43 living winners in the current and former faculty. How many does Stanford have? Probably not many more than 16, because Stanford winners don’t move around that much. </p>
<p>I told you not to use dirty tricks counting Harvard Medical School faculty members. Most of the “10,000” faculty are clinical practitioners. Any attending physician at a Harvard teaching hospital is an “instructor” at the Medical School and is considered faculty. So your comparison is not valid. </p>
<p>The examples you use to support Stanford’s supposed superiority is quite revealing: the examples show that you are very desperate. </p>
<p>What the heck is the national medal of science? Is that the thing George Bush gives out once a year to one person he selects? LOL!!! Just what is the selection process? Is someone who gets this medal really all that much better than some another scientist who doesn’t? Hey, no one that I know has gotten this dumb medal, and I know plenty of brilliant scientists. Do you think the pattern of the national medal of science given over 6 years translates into a meaningful assessment of universities? </p>
<p>Similarly, the example you use for Stanford Business School isn’t even about the MBA program but about the economics Ph.D. program within the Business School. They say they produced a “large number of outstanding economists” (how do you define “outstanding”?) and therefore they have the “best average placement rate” (again, very vague about what they mean, and no mention of statistics for the competitors). This is pretty laughable. Harvard of course has an economics Ph.D. program that is unmatched by any in the world (MIT is the only one that might claim to come close) - what is about comparing economics PH.D. programs at business schools? Perhaps you are in this Stanford program yourself? Otherwise no one else would know this highly obscure and dubious statistic or give a crap about it. Look, the point of a business school is to produce executives, not academics. Harvard Business School does that better than anyone. </p>
<p>The fact that these are the best examples you can come up with speaks volumes about the validity of the argument you are trying to make.</p>