5.8. Strategy
Strategy features in most courses at business school, but is also a specialisation in its own right. The writings of Michael Porter have helped to keep Harvard at the forefront of business thinking in the field of strategy. Porter is the Bishop William Laurence University Professor at the Harvard Business School. With 18 books and a wealth of highly influential articles to his name, he has an almost legendary status in the world of strategic thinking. In addition to his teaching and writing he consults with the Monitor Group, the consulting firm he helped to establish.
Business gurus have a big influence on the perceived excellence of any business school in this field. CK Prahalad’s seminal work, The fortune under the pyramid has helped raise the profile of Michigan Business School in this field as well as in the field of development economics. INSEAD based Korean, W. Chan Kim, and American Renée Mauborgne, have written the best-selling Blue Ocean Strategy, and Mauborgne is among the most highly rated female professors in the field today. Gary Hamel who wrote the best-selling Competing for the future, which introduced the idea of core competencies, continues to contribute to the reputation of London Business School, where he is a senior faculty member.
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) received recognition in the field of strategy in 2007. This is the first time an Asian school has entered the top 20 in any specialist field within our Global Recruiter Research, since inception in 1990.
| School Name | Country | % |
|---|---|---|
| Source: QS TopMBA.com International Recruiter Survey 2007 | ||
| Harvard Business School | USA | 100% |
| The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | USA | 95% |
| Stanford University Graduate School of Business | USA | 61% |
| INSEAD | France | 54% |
| IMD (CH) | Switzerland | 46% |
| The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | USA | 39% |
| Columbia Business School | USA | 37% |
| Sloan School of Management, Massachusett Institute of Technology | USA | 32% |
| IE Business School (Instituto de Empresa) | Spain | 29% |
| The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business | USA | 29% |
| McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University | USA | 29% |
| London Business School | UK | 27% |
| Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | USA | 27% |
| IESE Business School | Spain | 27% |
| University of Virginia's Darden School of Business | USA | 20% |
| The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | USA | 17% |
| China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) | China | 17% |
| Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth | USA | 15% |
| NYU Stern | USA | 7% |
| Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne | Australia | 7% |
| Australian Graduate School of Management | Australia | 7% |
| ESADE Business School | Spain | 7% |
| Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley | USA | 7% |
| Yale School of Management, Yale University | USA | 7% |
| Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, | USA | 5% |
| University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business | USA | 5% |
| EGADE-Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico) | Mexico | 5% |
| UCLA Anderson School of Management | USA | 5% |
| Oxford University, Said Business School | UK | 5% |
| Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management | USA | 5% |
| Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico - ITAM (Mexico) | Mexico | 5% |
| The Carroll School of Management, Boston College | USA | 5% |
| Ashridge Business School, UK | UK | 5% |
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