Harvard competes with Stanford and Chicago for students, not with Rice and the University of Alabama.
In addition, investors have faced Ponzi schemers like Bernie Madoff and Alan Stanford and many others.
Eesley hastened to point out that Stanford and MIT are not directly comparable, though.
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Thirty-one GPs received a graduate degree from Stanford, and two received graduate credentials from Stanford and MIT.
An undergraduate at Stanford and law student at Yale, Kennard had first hoped to wind up in broadcast management.
He earned a doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford and served as a professor there from 1985 to 2009.
This year Harvard slipped again, to fourth place behind Stanford and University of Oxford, which were tied for second place.
Stanford and Cornerstone attributed the decline to fewer lawsuits pegged to the credit crisis and the end of Madoff-related litigation.
One-fifth of American start-ups are linked to universities, and great institutions like Stanford and MIT spawn businesses by the thousand.
Rohin is also the co-founder of Personforce job boards and has an MBA from Stanford and BA from Dartmouth.
Rejected once, and then again, by business schools at Stanford and Harvard, Scott McNealy practiced the perseverance that would characterize his career.
Mr. Connell, who never married, studied creative writing at Stanford and Columbia universities but didn't teach, saying campus life was too comfortable.
But he had very little money to bid for books and manuscripts against the likes of Stanford and the University of Texas.
"I loved my time at Stanford and I saw it as a way of helping others have the same experience, " she says.
D. in Operations Research at Stanford and Tex Hull, a top-notch programmer.
She met young women at the camp who had gotten full-ride scholarships to play soccer at schools such as Stanford and Notre Dame.
Loki Studios currently employs four co-founders each of whom hold Computer Science degrees from Stanford and recently hired a part-time user interface designer.
Online joint projects, offered by some of the world's leading universities, including Harvard, Stanford and MIT, have attracted registrations from millions of students.
Mr. Stanford and Mr. Madoff aren't the only Ponzi fraudsters sentenced to more than a century in prison or even the most harshly punished.
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It will allow them to search for accountants or journalists or any other profession and for educational background, including schools like Stanford and Tufts.
Two world-class universities, Stanford and Berkeley, seeped in a balance of engineering and the humanities set the original stage out of which successful innovation emerged.
"There was the fiasco over Kevin Pietersen, the fiasco over Allen Stanford and his millions, they've tried three or four guys as captain, " said Boycott.
That being said, Stanford and Wisconsin fans have a lot of cheering to do this week, both around the dinner table and on the gridiron.
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Scott Forstall left Stanford and went directly to work at NeXT.
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Kellogg, Stanford and other high ranking schools also have similar courses.
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He brought with him faculty experience at the Stanford and Harvard business schools and INSEAD, and he quickly touched base with staff members in every department.
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