MBAs Discover New Way to Sell Out
The other night I was watching TV while drunk and stumbled across something called the Fast Money MBA Challenge on CNBC. I immediately decided I was imagining things. IvyGate has since received confirmation that this program does actually exist, and we're not quite sure how to handle it.
The Challenge, which debuted August 1 and will run through August 22, pits teams of MBA candidates from eight of the nation's top business schools against each other in College Bowl-ish duels. Dylan Ratigan, host of CNBC's usual Fast Money shit-off, runs the special with predictably douchey swagger.
The eight b-schools in competition are MIT (Sloan), Texas, Columbia, NYU (Stern), Chicago, UCLA (Anderson), Dartmouth (Tuck) and Yale. (Click on the picture to enlarge the bracket). Wharton and Harvard probably fancy themselves above this, but we think they're just scared little hobbit-bitches who are afraid to put their reps on the line.
And as the Challenge has demonstrated, even the mightiest can pull a Nasdaq-circa-2000. In the first round, number-one seed MIT lost to icky state school yokels Texas, and permanent safety school Chicago fell hard to UCLA. Whether the game is basketball or stock quotes, MIT and Chicago will always be intercollegiate competition ne'er-do-wells.
Watch the clip below for a taste of the Challenge that a) demonstrates to a tee why people hate corporations and b) solidifies wiseacre Dylan Ratigan's status as the most grating television personality in the world today. It's Columbia versus NYU, a match that Ratigan cleverly dubs the "Subway Series." Columbia wins, as the bracket shows, effectively renewing its right to treat NYU like shit for another few years.
--JIM NEWELL
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August 10th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I find it amusing that the name of the university is listed before the name of the business school e.g. NYU (Stern) except for Wharton. You *do* know that Wharton is a subset of Penn? Just checking.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
ha… wharton tries really, really hard to downplay that connection. i guess after four years as a humanities student at penn their trick has worked on me. so evil…
August 10th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
That’d be great if it was Texas vs. UCLA!! Talk about instantly loosing half the viewers! C’mon Tuck, what the Hell was that?! I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “competing.” I’m questioning why Yale was even included in this, as it was marketed as “including the nations top 8 business schools, as ranked by US News & World..” Last time I checked, Yale was like #23.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
MBA students? Oh please. Even Ivy MBA students suck. Half of them went to state schools, another quarter went to non-Ivy schools and are trying to get Ivy League cred (from a 2-year degree!), and the last quarter are wash-up Ivy kids.
Business school students are almost the lowest form of life. Having them compete intellectually is like having paraplegics run a relay race. Just wrong.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Lmao this show makes these people look like a bunch of tools christ
“I guess we’re the king of NY for another day” Stfu…
On a brighter note, we can make fun of Stern for at least another decade
August 10th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
as though we wouldn’t have made fun of Stern anyway?
August 11th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Make fun of Stern all you want if it makes you feel better. The better students and better faculty are still going to NYU. (I’ll stand corrected when Engel moves up to Harlem.)
At least Columbia has a higher percentage of women MBA students. But they don’t put out for undergrads — oh well!
August 11th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
What the fuck? Come on Tuck!