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Big surprise than art schools produce more leaders/CEOs than MIT which is a specialized engineering school ?
by 1971genocide 11y ago
Big surprise than art schools produce more leaders/CEOs than MIT which is a specialized engineering school ?
- replicatorblog 11y agoI was fairly surprised by the finding. Yes MIT is an engineering school, but is much more oriented around the startup lifestyle. They've got an annual entrepreneurship competition, a top 5 business school, and most importantly, a raft of super successful founder/graduates. I think the art school issue is a bit of a fluke, but surprised MIT isn't more like Stanford or Harvard in terms of presence.
- gumby 11y agoBelieve me MIT is well aware of their poor startup record. I donate enough that people from the development office visit me in person, and they have been worrying for decades that MIT grads go on to work for other people. When I was a student (80s) MIT was still basically anti-entrepreneurial (this despite Draper, EG&G, etc..even Symbolics and LMI) and instead focused around government R&D and policy. There is so much hysteresis in the system that this culture is very hard to change. A lot of the things you mention (startup competition) are surface phenomena. Stanford is far and away more deeply entrepreneurial (they were already a bit this way back in the early 80s -- think the Sun/Cisco era). As for Harvard, well, the reasons I chose not to go there still appear to apply.