Which Colleges Have The Best Career/Placement Service ?

sakky
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:15:05 +0000

Well, I looked at the list of Silicon Valley CEO’s and where they went to college, here :

[San Jose Mercury News - Home](http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_757974...nclick_check=1)

There seems to be LITTLE correlation between going to top name schools and being a top CEO.



Well, that’s not a particularly good way of looking at the topic. The truth is, many elite graduates don’t really want to be CEO’s, preferring instead to be venture capitalists, private equity partners, hedge fund managers, and so forth. As one Harvard Business School professor once said, why be the CEO when you can be the guy telling the CEO what to do?

And the fact is, if you look at the top partners of the top VC’s and PE firms, you’re going to find a lot of grads from places like HYPSM. Private equity, in particular, is dominated by Harvard grads.