CEO’s And The Ivy League
WSJ –
Some 10% of CEOs currently heading the top 500 companies received undergraduate degrees from Ivy League colleges, according to a survey by executive recruiter Spencer Stuart. But more received their undergraduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin than from Harvard, the most represented Ivy school.
The Army realized the same thing a decade or so ago when it came to light that a majority of Generals didn’t come from West Point. Last I checked about 70% of new 2LT’s were went through the ROTC program. This doesn’t mean that public schools are putting out higher quality individuals (as the article bizzarely insinuates); just that the playing field is changing.
Graduates of the elite institutions will always have a leg up at the bottom of the pyramid but with each step up innovative ideas and impact made are slowly taking precedence over alma mater or time in grade (and rightly so).
-Shlok
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