in 2001, an HBS grad went to work as POTUS

8-5-08—Like our common language, like our love for baseball and bleached flour, our resentful mistrust of Harvard is one of the things that have traditionally bound Americans to one another, from the snootiest Yale graduate to the lowliest stevedore. Meanwhile, everyone is trying to get in... this wonderful bit of data from a study by a banking analyst who tried to track the American equity markets in relation to the number of Harvard Business School graduates who chose to go to work in finance each year. If the figure was less than 10% the market went up not long after. More than 30% and the market was headed for a crash. In 2006, Mr. Delves Broughton reports, 42% of the HBS grads went to work in finance. Right on schedule. WSJ A17