An examination of the relationship between research productivity in prestigious business journals and popular press business school rankings

This paper examines the relationship between an objective measure of research productivity in prestigious business journals from 1986–1998 and recent undergraduate and masters business school ratings determined by U.S. News & World Report. These findings are validated over separate sets of U.S. News measures for undergraduate and MBA programs, extended to a smaller set of MBA rankings from Business Week, and address institutions' residuals that...