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NewBoston · 2009 May 15th, 03:13 PM

Technology and entrepreneurship is a rather new addition to pretty much all business schools, so the traditional metrics may not be of the same value when determining how well you stack up against other applicants. Since you already know the schools where they have such programs, you may want to check the CVs of current students. One school not on your list but also good is the University of Washington Foster School of Business. They have exactly that program here and strong industry connections to the biggest names in technology.

My experience is that successful MIT and Stanford GSB Business PhD applicants have perhaps the top profiles in the world AND the top faculty writing LORs. However, I only looked at the Finance PhDs, so things may be radically different for non-Finance programs.

2009 May 15th, 03:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
NewBoston Dynamic Optimizer Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 104	Technology and entrepreneurship is a rather new addition to pretty much all business schools, so the traditional metrics may not be of the same value when determining how well you stack up against other applicants. Since you already know the schools where they have such programs, you may want to check the CVs of current students. One school not on your list but also good is the University of Washington Foster School of Business. They have exactly that program here and strong industry connections to the biggest names in technology. My experience is that successful MIT and Stanford GSB Business PhD applicants have perhaps the top profiles in the world AND the top faculty writing LORs. However, I only looked at the Finance PhDs, so things may be radically different for non-Finance programs.