风险投资人对于曾就读哈佛商学院（Harvard Business School）的未来企业家有偏见。

    上周末，知名风险投资人、前Facebook高管卡马斯•帕里哈毕提亚在一次会议主题演讲中对哈佛商学院在校生传递了这样的信息。下文摘自DealBook：

    “这一点对于你们真的不公平，但我认为，你们现在确实遭到了歧视，”风投基金Social+Capital Partnership的创始人卡马斯•帕里哈毕提亚说。“我可以下个大的赌注，我们中绝大部分人都不会看好你们中任何一位创立的公司。”

    这条消息很是吸引眼球，特别是很多风险投资人都曾就读于哈佛商学院（包括帕里哈毕提亚的一名合伙人马蒙恩•哈米德）。而这一点几乎不可能从科学的角度得到证明或反证，除非能查看所有曾经抵达风险投资人的案头、但没有得到肯定答复的商业计划书。

    不过，我们可以查一查，有多少高估值的初创公司是由哈佛商学院校友创立的。

    为此，我根据风险投资人艾琳•李的投资公司名单按图索骥，这个名单包括从2003年起创立的39家科技公司，它们在非公开或公开市场的总估值达到或超过10亿美元（注：她的名单自从去年11月起一直未更新。）

    这39家公司中只有3家公司至少有一名共同创始人曾就读于哈佛商学院。它们是：

    • 点评网站Yelp：杰里米•斯托普勒曼 (哈佛商学院2005届, 退学）

    • 社交游戏公司Zynga：马克•平库斯 (哈佛商学院1993届)

    • Gilt Groupe：阿里克西斯•梅班克(哈佛商学院2004届)，亚历山德拉•维尔克斯•威尔森(哈佛商学院2004届)

    但这并不仅仅是哈佛商学院一所学校的问题。39家公司中只有12家公司的共同创始人团队中拥有MBA学位（比例仅28%），而且这其中只有4家公司拥有多名MBA毕业生。占据首位（略微胜出）的是斯坦福大学（Stanford），这所大学的MBA学生出现在5家科技公司的创始人中（Homeaway、Fab.com、 Marketo、Tableau Software和Workday）。

    那些注重模式识别的风险投资人很难无视这样一点：拥有MBA学历的企业家们创立的伟大科技企业少之又少。实际上，帕里哈毕提亚也可以在全世界其他任何一家商学院发表这样的讲话，包括斯坦福大学。

    但MBA应聘者别苦恼。因为风投公司依然在招兵买马……（财富中文网）

    Venture capitalists are biased against would-be entrepreneurs who went to Harvard Business School.

    That was the message imparted top current HBS students at a conference keynote this past weekend by Chamath Palihapitiya, a current venture capitalist and former Facebook (FB) executive. From DealBook:

    "It's really unfair to you guys, but I think you're discriminated against now," Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of the venture capital fund Social+Capital Partnership... "I would bet a large amount of money that the overwhelming majority of us would not look favorably on a company started by one of you."

    It's a fascinating message, particularly given how many venture capitalists once attended HBS (including one of Palihapitiya's partners, Mamoon Hamid). And it is virtually impossible to prove or disprove scientifically, without access to all of the business plans that have reached VC desks without affirmative reply.

    One thing we can look at, however, is how many highly-valued startups have been founded by HBS alumni.

    To do so, I pilfered Aileen Lee's list of "unicorns" -- a group of 39 tech companies founded since 2003, and which were valued at $1 billion or more by the private or public markets (note: her list has not been updated since last November).

    Of those 39 companies, only three had at least one co-founder who went to HBS. They were:

    • Yelp: Jeremy Stoppleman (HBS 2005, but dropped out)

    • Zynga: Mark Pincus (HBS: 1993)

    • Gilt Groupe: Alexis Maybank (HBS 2004), Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (HBS 2004)

    But this isn't just an HBS issue. Only 12 of the 39 companies had any MBAs within their co-founding teams (i.e., just 28%) and, of those, only four had multiple MBAs. The leader (barely) is Stanford, with MBAs at five unicorns (Homeaway, Fab.com, Marketo, Tableau Software and Workday)

    For venture capitalists who pray at the alter of pattern recognition, it would be hard to ignore how few massive tech successes have been founded by entrepreneurs with MBAs on their resumes. In fact, Palihapitiya could have made the same comments at any other business school in the world, including Stanford.

    But fret not MBA candidates. VC firms are still hiring...