here is proof that performance does matter !
Ok, I thought about it too when I read the magazine, but Rashmi blogged it first (why am I sulking? ;-))) So I can be lazy and just link to her, and quote her:
we all know this at some level - that in the end it's we as individuals who are responsible for our career graphs - regardless of which institute we graduate from. But I'd just like to highlight this point, because I often meet young people who tried for IIMs, didn't make it and are now studying elsewhere. And feeling terrible about it. I want to say to all of you that 10 years from now it's really not going to matter. Although you may use it as an excuse to explain why you aren't doing as well as X, Y or Z.
For the readers who are not from India, replace IIM with "Sloan, Stanford etc" !
Gautam this makes sense, having remembered reading/hearing something similar I searched and I quote below from an article in Bloomberg,
ReplyDelete" Wisconsin, with 29,000 undergraduates, tied with Harvard University's Harvard College for first place in educating the most chief executive officers of companies included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg"
and
" By the time executives are considered for a CEO job, their degree often fades in importance, says Tom Neff, former chairman of executive search firm Spencer Stuart Inc. ``It's a rare occasion when a client says I want a graduate of an Ivy League school or Harvard,'' Neff says"
and more impressively a lot of them never completed their college degree
"At least 16 current CEOs never got an undergraduate degree..."
Gautam this makes sense, having remembered reading/hearing something similar I searched and I quote below from an article in Bloomberg,
ReplyDelete" Wisconsin, with 29,000 undergraduates, tied with Harvard University's Harvard College for first place in educating the most chief executive officers of companies included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg"
and
" By the time executives are considered for a CEO job, their degree often fades in importance, says Tom Neff, former chairman of executive search firm Spencer Stuart Inc. ``It's a rare occasion when a client says I want a graduate of an Ivy League school or Harvard,'' Neff says"
and more impressively a lot of them never completed their college degree
"At least 16 current CEOs never got an undergraduate degree..."