ManMythLegend Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SocratesCFA Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > What is this? The pat your back because you’re > > British thread? > > > > LBS is a good school, but saying it has more > > “international appeal” than Harvard is just > > ridiculous. > > Have you seen the rankings? I can respect your > opinion that HBS is superior but don’t be > ignorant. Rankings from a British newspaper*
hhahaahaha only on AF …UoP>>>>>>>>>>>>>both
ManMythLegend Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SocratesCFA Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > What is this? The pat your back because you’re > > British thread? > > > > LBS is a good school, but saying it has more > > “international appeal” than Harvard is just > > ridiculous. > > Have you seen the rankings? I can respect your > opinion that HBS is superior but don’t be > ignorant. Ignorant about what? For example when I say something like this: “Certainly but Boston isn’t London. I would imagine going to LBS, you could pretty much pick where you’re going to work after graduation.” No, wait… That was you. You imply people who graduate from Harvard aren’t able to pick where they are going to work after graduation as easily as someone who graduated from LBS. Seriously? Are you high? You really think HBS doesn’t have the international appeal and presence that london business school has? Give me a break. Every retard in every back alley in every 3rd world city who’s been living under a rock for the past 50 years knows what Harvard and Harvard Business School is. You’re trying to seriously argue that LBS is better known and somehow companies prefer LBS over Harvard? I can guarantee you this is not the case and the only place where a top LBS student may be considered a better candidate than a top HBS student would be in London and that’s only when an alumni of LBS is doing the picking. LBS is a good school. Schools which are better are Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton. LBS is arguably better than IMD, IESE, and INSEAD; and even that is a controversial statement to make. I can’t even believe this stupid question got to page 2.
I am really surprised as well, especially with comments like “LBS has a better reputation (I would say)”. Is LBS even better regarded than Said?
I think he or she is referring to the following link (FT 2011 MBA Rankings): http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2011 But still, LBS is better than HBS solely based on FT rankings is absurd…Even my mom, who doesn’t even know CFA, finance, or anything related to business, knows harvard.
Hightlight: GEORGE BUSH NakedPuts Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HBS Alumni: > > George Bush, Hank Paulson, John Paulson, Jamie > Dimon, Jeff Immelt, Steve Schwarzman, Bob Kraft, > Ray Dalio, Rick Wagoner, Meg Whitman, Michael > Bloomberg, and a ton more that I didn’t bother to > include. > > LBS Alumni: > > Omar Samra, first Egyptian to summit Mount > Everest.
Wow, I’m shocked by what I’m reading. Even my British friends would rather get an American MBA at a place like: Harvard, Wharton, or Stanford rather than go to LBS. I think this shows that their are a lot of Asians on this forum. LBS, which I will apply to this year, is a great school and I will be lucky if I get interviewed even, but I really think it is nowhere nearly as bada$$ as Harvard. From what I can tell the student body is largely comprised of wealthy kids from the developing world. Could this be why everyone here is saying YES to LBS in this thread? I noticed someone asking if SAID was better than Harvard even? Jeebus. Harvard, by contrast, has seriously Type-A people with just sick backgrounds. The only weak-links might be the younger kids straight out of undergrad. Everyone that I have ever spoken to in the I-Banking world has always said that you should go for the Top US MBA.
ChickenTikka Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wow, I’m shocked by what I’m reading. Even my > British friends would rather get an American MBA > at a place like: Harvard, Wharton, or Stanford > rather than go to LBS. I think this shows that > their are a lot of Asians on this forum. I strongly doubt this is an Asian bias. American universities are FAR more well known in [East] Asia than any European ones. But yeah, Harvard hands down unless you are specifically focused on working in London.
Definitely HBS. I too am surprised by the initial London bias. Even some of my Europeans friends would take HBS in half a heartbeat.
lol@ this thread
I’m English and I thought everyone would say Harvard. LBS is a great school and all but… PS: I own a flat next door to LBS if anyone wants to rent off me next school year 
Id pick Harvard but I have a .00000001% to ever get accepted. So I’ll keep my application money and buy lottery tickets.
Hah, do either have part time? I work with few HBS graduates and they are impressive…they also tell me that I’m better off skipping the MBA because I’ll probably get a better experience here. I’d go to whatever one offers part time, because I’d basically be doing it for the resume.
HBS in a heartbeat. Not even close. I would say too that it depends on what you want to do and where you want to live. If you want to be a future CEO or work at a hedge fund in NY, then HBS is probably your best bet. If you want to work in tech in SF, Stanford would be the way to go. If you want to live in Europe then LBS would be good.
I wonder where the guys who voted for LBS are from.
Even if you’re in London, there are well over 2,000 HBS alumni there, many of whom work in the financial industry. Now I don’t know how many LBS alumni there are in London but it doesn’t really take away from HBS having a broad global footprint in London (and the rest of the world for that matter). The contention that LBS is definitively more “international” than HBS is simply not true.
This is a choice between a gold plated orange and a gold plated apple…both are pretty amazing…and the decision probably comes down to individual taste and not objective differences!
Valores Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder where the guys who voted for LBS are > from. I voted LBS and I’m from northeast US. Both are fantastic schools, but I would rather spend 2 years in London than 2 years in Cambridge, Mass.
ChickenTikka Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LBS, which I will apply to this year, is a great > school and I will be lucky if I get interviewed > even, but I really think it is nowhere nearly as > bada$$ as Harvard. From what I can tell the > student body is largely comprised of wealthy kids > from the developing world. Could this be why > everyone here is saying YES to LBS in this thread? > I noticed someone asking if SAID was better than > Harvard even? Jeebus. > No one is asking whether “Said is better than Harvard even”. I was asking whether “LBS is even better than Said”, reading helps.
I think we need to clarify that there is a difference between “I want to attend school X” and “School X is a better/more reputable than school Y”. If you say that you want to attend LBS to be in London, you’re answering the first question but not necessarily the second question.