<p>How legitimate are these rankings?
<a href="http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Fr/Actualites/PR/EMP-ranking.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Fr/Actualites/PR/EMP-ranking.pdf</a></p>
<p>I was lost reading the methodology ;p</p>
<p>I guess it’s OK if your sole mission in life is to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. And I guess it’s pretty irrelevant if your goal is anything else!</p>
<p>Yeah, that was a poorly written research report with questionable methodology but here are the results for US schools:</p>
<p>TOP AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES BY CEO PRESENCE AS OF 2008</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard (16.92)</li>
<li>Stanford (8.33)</li>
<li>Duke (5.17)</li>
<li>Penn (5.17)</li>
<li>MIT (4.83)</li>
<li>Cornell (3.50)</li>
<li>Fordham (3.50)</li>
<li>Columbia (3.33)</li>
<li>U Arizona (3.00)</li>
<li>U Iowa (3.00)</li>
</ol>
<p>The leadership at a lot of these corporations has changed in the last couple of years since the financial meltdown but Harvard and Stanford clearly have a monopoly on America’s future leaders.</p>
<p>Is this for the university as a whole? The dominance of HBS and Stanford GSB (a little less than half as large as HBS) would explain the results.</p>