Dodgy business.

Rankings of the top business schools in the U.S. in magazines like Business Week and US News & World Report are an incomplete measure of how good the schools really are. Although the magazines may agree on what are the best and worst schools, they are not a reliable measure of who is on the way up...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 349; no. 8091; pp. 63 - 64
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited October 24 1998
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Sumario:Rankings of the top business schools in the U.S. in magazines like Business Week and US News & World Report are an incomplete measure of how good the schools really are. Although the magazines may agree on what are the best and worst schools, they are not a reliable measure of who is on the way up and down or a good means of differentiating schools that lie only a few places apart. This is mostly due to the fact that a leap up the table is as likely to reflect a statistical error as a genuine improvement.