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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Sloan is a powerhouse of high-tech teaching and research. Its close relationship with MIT engineers also makes it a hotbed