以下是引用joshuatree在2004-9-24 0:55:00的发言: Just add a little bit logic to defend on my "arbitrarily conclusive behavior": the fact is that even in consumer product area, HBS and Stanford are at least no weaker than Michigan in terms of both academic strength and industry reputation, but few guys in the two schools are willing to promote baby shampoos because they have more sexy (at least looks like) offers or opportunities. So I guess the question is that between employers and graduates, actually who put who on their top lists.
The basic logical fault of WSJ ranking is that because each school has significantly different graders with significantly recruiting experiences in the respective school, the WSJ guys can never launch an objective and identical standard to correctly benchmark the schools. And mostly the schools that love or have to stay in the middle of the road, rather than the ones with individual competitive edges, will take advantage of this sort of criteria.
First, I don't think we have different opinions on the ranking, as you also mentioned that different schools have different competitive edges. That's why I said different companies have different tastes of choosing their favorite schools. I think many people will understand why J&J likes to recruite from Duke and UM, that is because the two universities are strong in health care management. I believe there are really too many of these kinds of examples: as for Supply Chain Management, the recruiters will go for MIT, MSU, PSU, even though we don't name MSU and PSU top 10 schools.
Second, you actually have no convincing evidence that HBS is strong in consumer goods industry except that you saying so.
I tried to find some data so that both of us can be convinced. Unfortunately, I can't get any detail information about Harvard's latest employment profile, such as their top recruiters and how many people they recruited. The following is the 2003 employment stats of two schools listed by function, and I believe it will give us a better view what the difference is between the two schools:
|
UMBS |
HBS |
Consulting |
13.3% |
30% |
Finance |
36.9% |
28% |
GM |
6.1% |
19% |
HR |
2.3% |
N/A |
Marketing |
28.9% |
13% |
Operations |
3.4% |
N/A |
Business Development |
3.8% |
5% |
Other |
5.3% |
5% |
UM's students have more diverse interest as showed in the table. And we do have diverse exposure to all the fields in the school, because UM is a great school in many fields, allowing us to have more opportunity to develop our own interests.
Our life is all about balance, so I don't think WSJ did anything wrong by ranking the well-balanced schools on the top. Well-rounded is always good, just as the experience that my section won the championship. We didn't win the first place in any single game while won the championship (I repeated it here given you haven't read the "Michigan life" thread).
Ok, I've spoken too much. Last thing, for those who have interest in UM, the following is the top 10 recruiters of UM (there are more than 10, because some of them recruited the same numbers), listed in descending order according to the number of people they recruited:
Mckinsey & Company Johnson & Johnson Ford Motor Medtronic Booz Allen Hamilton American Express Citigroup GE Deloitte General Mills GM IBM Lehman Brothers Merck & Co. Inc. BCG Dell HP J.P.Morgan National City Corporation |