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Beat them or join them: B-schools around the world and the Ivy League

  • 1.  Beat them or join them: B-schools around the world and the Ivy League

    Posted 11-19-2003 10:28
    Brits will send some students from disadvantaged backgrounds who show
    entrepreneurial spark to Ivy League universities to dismay of Laura Tyson of
    the LSE:

    "... business schools reacted angrily. Laura Tyson, dean of the London
    School of Business, ranked as one of the best business schools in the world,
    told The [London] Times newspaper: 'The implication of this, whether
    intended or not, is that if you want to be a good entrepreneur you have to
    go to the United States.' 'I was surprised, I was dismayed, I think it is
    misguided, I think it is ironic. It is not just that we have our own
    entrepreneurship faculty. We have everything here... We have the entire
    gamut, including special summer schools for entrepreneurship. It is really
    hard to imagine what kind of entrepreneurship training we don't have.'"
    Full article:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1088508,00.html

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    An Indian B-school's approach is to join the undergraduate athletics group
    that really is what the "Ivy League" refers to:
    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?msid=290560

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    Charles Wankel
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