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10 Business Schools That Get It

By Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer
04.16.2001
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Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Recruiting3 BullseyeBullseye Overview Kellogg students have run the impressive Digital Frontier Conference since 1995. Although its curriculum is strong on e-commerce marketing, it's weaker in IT research. The Chicago-area school ranks high with Industry Standard 100 recruiters like Palm, Intuit and Sapient, but produces a lower number of recruits for new-economy companies than other schools do. LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL Curriculum1 BookBook Entrepreneurship2 BulbBulb Recruiting3 Bullseye Overview LBS is a truly international business school, with 80 percent of students coming from 50 countries outside the U.K. Its curriculum and students are hip to e-business, but few U.S. businesses seem to know about the school. MCCOMBS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
University of Texas at Austin Curriculum1 BookBook Entrepreneurship2 BulbBulb Recruiting3 BullseyeBullseyeBullseye Overview Deep in the heart of high-tech Texas, this school's star is on the rise. Forty-two percent of the class of 2001 interned at new-economy companies. And if students can't find a job at Austin companies like Dell, they can start their own through the school's pioneering Moot Corp. business-plan competition. OWEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Curriculum1 BookBook Entrepreneurship2 Bulb Recruiting3 BullseyeBullseye Overview Professors Donna Hoffman and Tom Novak put Owen on the map when they founded the eLab to study e-commerce back in 1994. The school is still known for its strong e-commerce curriculum and research, and it produces an unusually high number of students interested in the new economy. SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Curriculum1 BookBookBook Entrepreneurship2 BulbBulbBulb Recruiting3 BullseyeBullseyeBullseye Overview Sloan is a powerhouse of high-tech teaching and research. Its close relationship with MIT engineers also makes it a hotbed