This article in USA Today discusses the unimportance of having an Ivy League (or other elite school) pedigree for people in the CEO chairs of major businesses.
Interesting, and it throws a bucket of cold water over one of the claims of “diversity” advocates, namely that the country would really suffer if the likes of Harvard didn’t admit the right quotas of minority students, since getting an education at an elite school is so vital to the project of ensuring that minorities can rise to positions of prominence.
The truth is that a great many CEOs attended non-elite schools. Going to Harvard may help you land your first job, but it doesn’t do anything to help you climb the ladder afterward. The elites want everyone to think that the education they provide is so much better than you can get elsewhere that they’re worth paying a mint to obtain a degree from. Looking at the educational profiles of a lot of CEOs, though, it’s evident that the elites don’t accomplish much more eductionally than do the non-elites.
