[Synthetase]

I wrote the SQL calls.

We did not examine company size as we did not have that data on hand. We filtered the data based on known companies to the best of our abilities but that is an area we could devote additional effort.

That being said, an HBS study appears to confirm our conclusions.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020336350457718...

[wtvanhest]

It looks like it is the same data set. You could have used facebook to detect the number of people who list each company as their employer to build a more accurate picture.

It just doesn't say much if they are lifestyle businesses. Most businesses that are lifestyle businesses without technical degrees are owned by a variety of non MBAs.

MBAs have far too much opportunity cost to start a car washing business or some other small $50K/year business when even people in marginal MBA programs can easily make $85K first year working less than 40 hours a week.