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Comment by rrrrtttt | Hacker News Reader

As a tangent, I was appalled to read that Stanford undergrads can major in "management science". What happened to the high academic standards for which Stanford is famous?

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Management Science & Engineering is a major that broadly tracks Operations Research at other schools - it's a mixture of statistics, business, finance, and optimization engineering. Stanford has no business undergrad major, so it's often a popular choice for those who want to try something different than Economics.

The number of companies in Silicon Valley that fail purely due to management incompetence should yield a bit of respect for people trying to improve the situation.

In any case, Management Science at Stanford is part of the "Management Science and Engineering" division.. You can see their areas of research here:

http://web.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/research/index.p...

Seems pretty relevant, no?

I know several Stanford graduates. MS&E (management science and engineering) is basically the Stanford equivalent of an undergraduate degree in business. So judged relative to other business programs it's not any better or any worse (although we can argue the merits of studying business in undergrad at all).

And to be fair, mismanagement is more likely to come from people who think that studying business in school qualifies them to manage people than it is from other sources.

Good luck in the real world, where nobody gives a shit what your major was.

"self-designed major in management science and neuroengineering" I would guess it is one of those programs where you kind of make up your title and path. Is neuroengineering more to your liking?

Adding in neuroengineering makes it sound even more pretentious and fake.

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