[mikeyouse]

The number of companies in Silicon Valley that fail purely due to management incompetence should yield a bit of respect for people trying to improve the situation.

In any case, Management Science at Stanford is part of the "Management Science and Engineering" division.. You can see their areas of research here:

http://web.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/research/index.p...

Seems pretty relevant, no?

[argonaut]

I know several Stanford graduates. MS&E (management science and engineering) is basically the Stanford equivalent of an undergraduate degree in business. So judged relative to other business programs it's not any better or any worse (although we can argue the merits of studying business in undergrad at all).

And to be fair, mismanagement is more likely to come from people who think that studying business in school qualifies them to manage people than it is from other sources.