<p>Ivies and other elites dominate management consulting/I Banking, compared to their pct of entry level corp management positions. And elite corp law firms.</p>
<p>To the extent that there has been a reduction in the number of CEO’s who came in via consulting/I Banking/law, one would expect a decline in the number of Ivy CEO’s.</p>
<p>Also, to the extent that CEOs tend to come from elite B schools (but again, elite B schools tend to feed management consulting and wall street to a considerable degree) the admissions policies of those B schools wrt undergrad education will have an impact.</p>
<p>and greybeard, have you tried a $15 bottle of wine lately?</p>
<p>I think the cutpoint where you need a trained palate to tell the difference has gone up a bit. OTOH I think someone with 200k could manage a $50 bottle now and then, if they cared.</p>
<p>“Have you actually even worked in a real corporation? Do you think that people sit around saying, “Oh, Bob doesn’t fit in here, he went to Princeton and he has options we don’t”?”</p>
<p>I worked in a real corp. Long enough to know, for example, that the finance dept, marketing, ops, engineering all had their own approaches to recruiting - so that even for that one company, generalizations wouldn’t hold.</p>
<p>Fin and Marketing loved big name B schools - but didnt care nearly as much about undergrad. In ops, well they liked B school grads from schools with good ops programs, and some prior work experience in an ops area would sure help. The hiring managers probably didnt discriminate against Princeton - but once someone had left the HQ ops analysis rotation, and was sent to a field job, well they needed to be able to fit in sure enough. Which is not to say some princeton grads couldn’t manage that. OTOH I doubt many Princeton undergrads made it all the way up the ops management hierarchy. A princeton undergrad/good b school who had gotten a couple of years of ops experience at a firm like this, would be a pretty good candidate to switch into consulting.</p>
<p>Post #2 lists the CEOs of the top 50 companies. Six of them graduated from HYPMS. That’s 5 of the 4,000+ universities in America, comprising one-fifth of one percent of American college students, filling 12% of the Top 50 CEO positions.</p>