I wouldn't expect much in the way of innovation from a run-of-the-mill Harvard undergrad, or MBA, for the reasons the article gives. The problem is that for eve

I wouldn't expect much in the way of innovation from a run-of-the-mill Harvard undergrad, or MBA, for the reasons the article gives. The problem is that for every genuinely brilliant Ivy undergrad, there are 9 who got in by gaming the system... and in MBA programs, that ratio jumps even higher. On the other hand, I'd imagine that MIT and Stanford CS PhDs are quite capable of innovating. Perhaps the lesson to come out of this is that VC firms should hire more computer scientists and fewer MBAs.