<p>I know that, generally, people who major in business at USC, end up acquiring lucrative jobs and end up being relatively successful. However, my question is if that because employers purposely hire USC business grads, or if because rich kids go there and their parents have really good connections out in the world, they get jobs.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Well, getting hired in business is all about connections; that's why USC is always proud to boast about the Trojan Network.</p>
<p>Certainly, USC has a good name for recruiters. At the same time, those coming in with connections likely have an easier time than those who must forge them.</p>
<p>just wondering, are there any top excutives that are USC alums?</p>
<p>How is the Global Bus program????</p>
<p>according to wikipedia</p>
<p>Business
Marc Benioff - Founder and CEO of Salesforce.com
David Bohnett - Founder and former CEO of Geocities.com
Jerry Buss - Owner of Los Angeles Lakers
Scott Cook - Co-founder and chairman of Intuit, Inc.
Ken Dahlberg - President and CEO of Science Applications International Corporation
Yang Ho Cho - President and CEO of Korean Airlines
Jack Lindquist - Former president of Disneyland
Mike Markkula - Co-founder and former CEO of Apple Computer, Inc.
Michelle Manning - President of Production Paramount Pictures
Brian Mulligan - Former chairman of Fox Television
Paul Orfalea - Founder of Kinko's
Sol Price - Founder of Price Club (now Costco)
Charles Prince - Chairman and CEO of Citigroup
Linda Johnson Rice - President of Johnson Publishing
D. Kenneth Richardson - President emeritus, Hughes Electronics
Frank Rothman - Former chairman and CEO of MGM studios and nationally known trial attorney </p>
<p>thats kind of an odd thing to say about the latter of why USC grads get hired. If a kids parental connections were so good that THAT many SC grads could get jobs through parental and monetary connections i beleive A)they wouldnt have bothered going to USC and B)the same would be said about other top private B-school programs.</p>
<p>grads do get alot of jobs from USC because of "connections" but it's USC connections and repuation, not because they had them anyway aside from USC.</p>
<p>plus USC is building a good repuation, having a top 10 program for business obviously it pretty appealing for employers out there.</p>
<p>wow, Jerry Buss is an alum. Didnt know that</p>
<p>The Kinko's guy is a funny story. He came up with the idea for kinkos in an entreprenuership class or something like that, presented it as his term project, and was told it was a terrible idea. They gave him something like a C or D on it. But he decided that he really liked the idea, went for it, and he's sitting pretty now.</p>