THE PRIME MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE HATCHERY

Yes, I'm talking about the Harvard Business School. It turns out that about 2 out of 3 of their graduates shouldn't.

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By Brian Kladko
April 3 (Bloomberg) --

Harvard Business School's two-year program instills confidence ``to go out and aim high and to think you can work on the world's stage,'' said Scott Snook, an associate professor at the school. Yet, not all students mature psychologically while at Harvard, he said.

Snook studied 50 students from before they enrolled until they graduated in 2006. Using psychological tests and interviews, he found that one-third were still, in respects, stuck in adolescence, and had trouble empathizing.

Snook found another third inclined to define right or wrong in terms of what everybody else is doing. That might explain why even well-educated executives have fallen prey to the subprime- mortgage debacle, he said. Snook said the study will be published this year.

``They can't really step back and take a critical view,'' he said. ``They're totally defined by others and by the outcomes of what they're doing.''