Where do leaders come from?

[Wildwood11]

<p>Interesting info (for some CCers anyway)–more fodder for the never-ending debate on state school vs. elite private.</p>

<p>[Where</a> Do Leaders Come From? - Slate Labs](<a href=“http://labs.slate.com/articles/where-do-leaders-come-from/]Where”>http://labs.slate.com/articles/where-do-leaders-come-from/)</p>

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We’ve compiled a database of 1,410 prominent Americans—business leaders, thought leaders, legislative leaders, and more—and mapped where they were born, where they went to school, and where they live now. We’ve also charted the distance they’ve traveled from their birthplaces to college, and from college to their current residences. Finally, you can take a look at where our leaders go to school—how many attended Harvard and how many got their degrees at state universities.

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In this chart, we’ve collected data on where America’s leaders went to school. For most leaders, the school represented here is their undergraduate university; in the cases where an undergrad school was not present in our data, we’ve substituted a graduate school. How important is it to attend an elite institution? Harvard grads are best represented in the executive branch, the judiciary, the Senate, and among college and university leadership. The Ivy League school is far less of a presence among mayors, governors, and sports team owners, who have a far greater tendency to attend state universities. (To focus on or exclude any university or subgroup of universities from this graph, click on the name of that school/subgroup in the graph key.)

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[menloparkmom]

<p>I would never consider a sports team OWNER to be a LEADER! And certainly they are not in the same circle as elected officials! yikes!</p>