Which schools understand the new economy? We surveyed top full-time MBA programs in the U.S. and Europe, scrutinizing high-tech curricula, student clubs, business-plan competitions, startup activity, ranking among recruiters and student career paths. We also considered a school's high-tech intellectual capital - that is, how well it creates new high-tech knowledge. "Some very good schools like Chicago, Columbia and Kellogg don't get it," says Alan Dennis, the professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University who devised our intellectual capital rating. "While they may be doing well in e-commerce research with a marketing flavor, for example, they have dropped the ball in terms of information technology."
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ANDERSON SCHOOL University of California at Los Angeles |
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| Overview | Its new-economy curriculum could be strengthened, but Anderson cranks out an impressive number of new-economy workers. Twenty-nine percent of its 2000 class joined high-tech companies. |
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HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS University of California at Berkeley |
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| Overview | With an array of high-tech classes, an incubator and a high-stakes business-plan competition, Haas knows how to build startups (14 percent of the class of 2000 established one). Timbre Technologies, a winner of the 1999 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, was sold in March for $138 million. |
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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
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| Overview | This global-thinking business school runs Cyberposium, the nation's leading high-tech student conference, which attracts MBA students from around the world. Twelve percent of the class of 2000 started their own companies. |
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KELLOGG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. |
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