On 4/27/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> What does this mean and why should we care? I could answer this question
> for law schools but I have not idea what this means in relation to biz
> schools. I can also tell you what the ranking of law schools means for the
> politics and social relations in general, if anyone cares. But I don't have
> any idea what a Biz School really does or how it functions to create the
> bastards who manage our system of inefficiency.
>
> Jerry
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael C. Jensen <admin at ssrn.com>
> Date: Apr 27, 2006 10:58 AM
> Subject: Top Business School Rankings in SSRN eLibrary (Beta)
> To: SSRN-SUPER at publisher.ssrn.com
>
> SSRN is pleased to announce a new service: Top Business Schools
> Rankings based on downloads from SSRN's eLibrary. This list will be
> updated at the beginning of each month and joins the Top Law School
> Rankings, announced last year.
>
> The Top Business School Rankings includes U.S. Business School and
> International Business School Rankings along with an aggregate
> Ranking of over 800 Business Schools from around the world.
>
> The Top 20 U.S. and International Business Schools as measured by
> downloads of their faculty's papers from SSRN over the last 12 months
> are:
>
> SSRN TOP 20 U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOLS (BETA)
> 1 Harvard Business School
> 2 University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business
> 3 University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
> 4 Yale School of Management
> 5 New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
> 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of
> Management
> 7 Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan
> 8 Columbia University - Columbia Business School
> 9 Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
> 10 William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
> 11 Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
> 12 University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business
> 13 Stanford Graduate School of Business
> 14 University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
> 15 Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
> 16 Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business
> 17 Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of
> Management
> 18 Indiana University Bloomington - Kelley School of Business
> 19 University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
> 20 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business
>
> To view the full list of U.S. Business Schools go to:
> http://hq.ssrn.com/rankings/Ranking_Display.cfm?TMY_gID=2&TRN_gID=11
>
> SSRN TOP 20 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOLS (BETA)
> 1 University of London - London Business School
> 2 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management
> 3 Tilburg University - CentER and Faculty of Economics and Business
> Administration
> 4 City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
> 5 IESE Business School - University of Navarra
> 6 University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business
> 7 University of Zurich - Faculty of Business Administration
> 8 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology - School of Business
> and Management
> 9 University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
> 10 Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences
> 11 University of Amsterdam - Business School
> 12 Lancaster University - Management School
> 13 University of Reading - Business School
> 14 University of Maastricht (formerly University of Limburg) -
> Faculty of Economics & Business Administration
> 15 University of Oxford - Said Business School
> 16 Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business Administration
> 17 Middlesex University - Business School
> 18 Aarhus School of Business
> 19 McGill University - Faculty of Management
> 20 University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
>
> To view the full list of International Business Schools go to:
> http://hq.ssrn.com/rankings/Ranking_Display.cfm?TMY_gID=2&TRN_gID=12
>
> To view the full list of all 800 plus Business Schools go to:
> http://hq.ssrn.com/Rankings/Ranking_display.cfm?TRN_gID=4&TMY_gID=2
>
> To access the full data table on our web site, you must register in
> SSRN HQ (registration is free). If you are not registered, you will
> be prompted to do so. You can also reach all of the Top Business
> School Rankings from the Top Institutions Link on the SSRN Home page
> at: http://ssrn.com
>
> SSRN ranks over 800 business schools worldwide on 9 separate measures
> including total lifetime downloads of their faculty's papers on SSRN,
> total number of papers on SSRN, total number of authors, and
> downloads per paper and per author. The Rankings can be resorted on
> any of the measures by clicking on the column you want to sort by.
> Clicking again on a column heading reverses the sort.
>
> From any of the Top Business School Rankings you can link to time
> series information on the measures and in some cases to data from
> which the measures are calculated. These historical figures will be
> added as we complete their calculation over the next two months. You
> can link to a list of the authors affiliated with each institution on
> SSRN and from there you have one-click access to each "author home
> page" on SSRN, which lists all the author's other research on SSRN.
>
> In the near future, SSRN will also create similar rankings in other
> fields covered by SSRN.
>
> Some cautions: We believe these rankings can be a useful source of
> information about the productivity and influence of each school's
> faculty (to the extent that faculty members post their research to
> SSRN). At the same time, rankings based on number of downloads or
> number of papers posted to SSRN have important biases and
> limitations. We trust that our readers will use them carefully.
>
> These rankings are a "beta" version. We welcome corrections to our
> data and suggestions for changes in methodology. Please write to:
> CommentsSuggestions at SSRN.com
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael C. Jensen
> Chairman, Social Science Research Network
> Director, Management Research Network
>
>
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