Harvard isn’t just an undergraduate program. It has the first or second ranked undergraduate, law, business, public policy, economics, and medical school—attend any of those, and you can get on this list.
Also Harvard’s hegemony on this list is less of a reflection of its current position than its position decades ago, when the world’s rich (who disproportionally are at the end of their careers) were educated.
I was just going to say that! Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School are far more famous than a lot of similar institutions, and I’ve heard that the most famous (and well-paying) consulting and law firms tend to recruit heavily from them. “He went to Harvard Business School” is a pretty good answer to “Why should we pay a consulting firm a fortune to send us a young kid with no experience to tell us how to run our company?”
Thanks! Your first observation is a very important one that hadn’t occurred to me – I assumed that it was the undergraduate program that was being discussed. Are you sure that your interpretation is right (e.g. based on reading the original paper) or is it just a best guess?
Also Harvard’s hegemony on this list is less of a reflection of its current position than its position decades ago, when the world’s rich (who disproportionally are at the end of their careers) were educated.
Harvard’s wealthy alumni, include academy award-winning actress Natalie Portman, who is worth $32million and George W Bush, worth an estimated $35million.
George Bush went to Yale for undergrad. He went to Harvard for his Master’s in Business Administration.
The fact that Penn in is second place is extremely suggestive that they are including business schools, although it could be the effect of the business school on the rest of the school (attitude, ability to get into finance, etc).
(I would disregard solipsist’s quote because it not from the original source.)
Harvard isn’t just an undergraduate program. It has the first or second ranked undergraduate, law, business, public policy, economics, and medical school—attend any of those, and you can get on this list.
Also Harvard’s hegemony on this list is less of a reflection of its current position than its position decades ago, when the world’s rich (who disproportionally are at the end of their careers) were educated.
I was just going to say that! Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School are far more famous than a lot of similar institutions, and I’ve heard that the most famous (and well-paying) consulting and law firms tend to recruit heavily from them. “He went to Harvard Business School” is a pretty good answer to “Why should we pay a consulting firm a fortune to send us a young kid with no experience to tell us how to run our company?”
Thanks! Your first observation is a very important one that hadn’t occurred to me – I assumed that it was the undergraduate program that was being discussed. Are you sure that your interpretation is right (e.g. based on reading the original paper) or is it just a best guess?
Right, this makes sense
It is a guess based on this line:
George Bush went to Yale for undergrad. He went to Harvard for his Master’s in Business Administration.
Good point, thanks.
The fact that Penn in is second place is extremely suggestive that they are including business schools, although it could be the effect of the business school on the rest of the school (attitude, ability to get into finance, etc).
(I would disregard solipsist’s quote because it not from the original source.)