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...same time, the hated and debated U.S. News & World Report rankings are nudging Stanford even farther into the public eye--and closer to Harvard. This year's rankings show that Harvard's closest competitor among graduate schools is now as likely to be Stanford as Yale. For example, Stanford Business School edged into a tie with Harvard Business School. And in a kind of academic Manifest Destiny, prominent experts in technology as well as other fields are making Stanford the school of choice for many professors...
With the growing financial rewards of technology, Stanford may soon be able to compete even more aggressively for faculty members from Ivy League schools. And this may not be limited to just science and technology...
...Stanford is one of our major competitors for distinguished faculty now, certainly more so than Yale," Thompson says...
...department that's already been hard hit is the American section of the government department, where in 1998, Thomson Professor of Government Morris P. Fiorina packed his bags for a tenured position at Stanford. Theda Skocpol, another big name in that department, told The Crimson last year that she has talked to Stanford officials about heading West...
There's no doubt about it: Stanford has people worried...