哈佛、斯坦福、麻省理工：最善于培養女性企業家的名校

????又到了返校季，有一個問題值得我們探討：哪些頂尖大學能夠給女學生提供最好的跳板，讓她們在自己的公司中成為掌握最高權力的領導者？

????在過去5年中，有40位斯坦福大學（Stanford University）女性本科畢業生創立了公司，并獲得了風險投資基金的支持。根據向私募股權和風投機構提供研究服務的PitchBook公司的數據，這一數值超過其他頂尖大學。斯坦福校友近年來開設，并獲得風投基金支持的公司包括家居裝飾網站One Kings Lane。其創立者為斯坦福畢業生蘇珊?費爾德曼和艾莉森?平卡斯，后者是社交游戲商Zynga公司共同創始人馬克?平卡斯的妻子。此外，另一位曾入選《財富》“40位40歲以下商界精英”的斯坦福校友，星巴克公司（Starbuck）董事克拉拉?史密斯，與前微軟公司(Microsoft)工程師史蒂夫?加里蒂共同創立了社交媒體營銷管理服務公司Hearsay Social。

????就MBA項目而言，哈佛大學（Harvard）有56位女性畢業生在過去5年中創立公司，并受到風投基金的支持，這在所有大學中名列第一。比如，哈佛大學MBA項目畢業生海莉?巴納和凱蒂婭?比徹姆創立了化妝品和裝飾品網站Birchbox，該公司在B輪融資中獲得了6,000萬美元。此外，卡特琳娜?雷克于2011年創立了女性個人造型網站Stitch Fix。這位創始人實際上在斯坦福和哈佛都拿到了學位。

????在2009年至今創立公司的女性本科畢業生榜單上，哈佛以29人名列第三，位列擁有31人的麻省理工學院（Massachusetts Institute of Technology）之后。而在PitchBook公司編撰的過去5年創立公司并獲得風投基金支持的女性MBA榜單上，麻省理工學院以23人名列第三，落后于擁有31人的斯坦福大學。

????當然，這三所大學并不只是培養女性企業家。PitchBook公司還編撰了一份榜單，來評估大學培養的公司創始人總數（不論性別）。在這份榜單上，斯坦福大學、哈佛大學和麻省理工學院均位列前五。斯坦福大學再次高居本科生榜單之首，而哈佛大學也再次成為MBA榜單的霸主。兩份榜單的結果證明，這些頂尖大學持續不斷地培養成功的企業家，不論性別。

????It’s back-to-school season, so it’s worth asking which top universities offer their female students the best springboard to a powerful position at the top of their own company?

????Over the past five years, 40 women with undergraduate degrees from Stanford University have received venture capital funding for companies they founded, more than any other top school, according to data from PitchBook, which provides research to private equity and venture capital firms. Among the companies founded by Stanford alums receiving venture capital funding in recent years is flash-sale style home decor website One Kings Lane, which was founded by Stanford grad Susan Feldman along with Alison Pincus, the wife of Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus. Another Stanford grad, Clara Shih — a former Fortune “40 Under 40″ member who also serves on Starbucks’ board — co-founded social media marketing management service Hearsay Social with former Microsoft engineer Steve Garrity.

????When it comes to MBA programs, Harvard tops the list with 56 female founders receiving funding over the past five years. Companies springing up recently that are led by female Harvard MBA’s include beauty and grooming products delivery service Birchbox, founded by Harvard MBAs Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, which recently raised $60 million in a Series B funding. Another company on the list is personal styling for women website Stitch Fix, which was founded in 2011 by Katrina Lake, who actually has degrees from both Stanford and Harvard.

????Harvard also came in third on the list of undergraduate programs with 29 female-founder alums dating back to 2009, finishing behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its 31 female founders during that same period. MIT finished third on PitchBook’s list of MBA programs with female alums receiving VC funding over the past five years. MIT had 23 during that period, behind Stanford’s 31.

????Of course, those three schools aren’t just churning out female entrepreneurs. Stanford, Harvard and MIT also placed in the top five (for both undergraduates and MBAs) in a separate PitchBook list ranking schools by the number of company founders of all genders that they produced. That the schools fared well on both lists — again, Stanford topped the undergraduate list, while Harvard’s MBA program topped its list — shows that these top schools are simply consistently producing successfully entrepreneurial graduates of all genders.