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The Best Entrepreneurship Teachers
RANK & PROFESSOR SCHOOL RAW SCORE COMMENTS
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1 WILLIAM COCKRUM UCLA 108 Has become a legend for the
case-study entrepreneurial finance
class he has been teaching since
1985
2 EDWARD WILLIAMS Rice 48 Wharton grad serves on board of
Texas funeral-home company he
helped expand to $7 billion in
market capitalization
3 IRVING GROUSBECK Stan- 46 Harvard MBA founded Continental
ford Cablevision and worked as its
president or chairman from 1964
to 1985
4 STEVEN KAPLAN Chicago 45 Young star in Chicago's top-rated
finance department began teaching
entrepreneurship last year
5 WILLIAM SAHLMAN Harvard 35 Finance prof is seen as a giant in
entrepreneurship field; his case
studies are widely used
6 JAMES SCHRAGER Chicago 35 A specialist in medical-device
startups, he gets more than 500
applications a year for his
185-slot course
7 STEVEN ROGERS North- 34 Finance jock was Bain consultant
western before buying lamp-shade company
in deal that became Harvard case
study
8 DAVID BENDANIEL Cornell 33 Former GE and Exxon exec has
engineering PhD and uses only
unpublished case studies featuring
Cornell grads
9 ROBERT PRICER Wiscon- 31 Onetime turnaround artist will
sin oversee recent gift of $700,000
that students will invest in new
ventures
10 RICHARD OSBORNE Case 30 Twenty-five-year veteran of faculty
Western is only full-time member without
PhD; has served on 25 boards
11 WILLIAM YOST UCLA 26 UCLA MBA returned home after long
career in energy industry and
government as engineer and
executive
12 JEFF SANDEFER Texas 19 Native Texan still serves as
president of off-shore oil and
gas company he founded in 1986
Note: Each of the 4,830 recent B-school grads who responded to this year's
BUSINESS WEEK survey was asked to name the two best teachers he or she had and
the two best electives he or she had taken. The raw score for each professor
was calculated by adding the percentage of respondents from each school who
chose a professor in the former category to the percentage who chose his or her
elective in the latter.
DATA: BUSINESS WEEK (RESEARCH BY JUDI CROWE AND LOURDES HERNANDEZ)
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