Venture Capital’s New Green Machine

Clean Tech Favored;
Investments Reach
Highest Since ‘01

By REBECCA BUCKMAN
January 2, 2008; Page R18

Venture capital got big — and green — last year.

Scrambling to spend all the capital they have raised in the past two years, venture investors made significant investments in bigger, more mature companies in 2007, rather than put a few million dollars into tiny and riskier start-ups.

THE YEAR-END REVIEW

For stock pickers, the best way to spot big winners and avoid big losers in 2007 was to bet on something bad about the U.S. economy. Plus, the dollar had its worst year in recent memory in 2007.

• See the complete Year-End Review.

Some of those big companies were capital-intensive green, or “clean,” technology firms focused on creating alternative fuels and fuel-efficient devices. Investors call the industry a potentially huge market, especially as oil prices remain above $90 a barrel and policy makers rush to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.

They are also responding to an improving, but still tough, market for initial public offerings of stock from traditional information-technology companies. This has made other industries — such as alternative energy, biotechnology and medical devices — more attractive.

Global venture-capital investment was expected to hit $40 billion in 2007. That is the most robust pace since 2001, according to data from research firm VentureOne and Ernst & Young LLP, and up from $37.3 billion in 2006. (VentureOne is owned by Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.)

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Where the Schools Rank

Results for the three categories of business schools in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive annual survey of corporate recruiters

NATIONAL RANKING

This ranking is based on how recruiters rated each school on 21 attributes,

their future plans to recruit at the school, and the number of survey

respondents who said they had recruited recently at the school. These schools

enjoy a national reputation and tend to draw recruiters from many of the

same companies, usually large national and multinational firms that pay high

starting salaries.

2007RANK 2006RANK UNIVERSITY (BUSINESS SCHOOL)
1 2 Dartmouth College (Tuck)

2 5 University of California, Berkeley (Haas)

3 4 Columbia University

4 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)

5 3 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)

6 8 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)

7 1 University of Michigan (Ross)

8 9 Yale University

9 11 University of Chicago

10 13 University of Virginia (Darden)

11 7 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

2 6 Northwe stern Univ1ersity (Kellogg)

13 12 Duke University (Fuqua)

14 14 Harvard University

15 19 University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)

16 16 Cornell University (Johnson)

17 17 New York University (Stern)

18 15 University of Southern California (Marshall)

19 18 Stanford University

INTERNATIONAL RANKING

This ranking is based on how recruiters rated each school on 21 attributes, their future plans to recruit there, and the number of companies hiring a high percentage of the school’s graduates for jobs outside the U.S.

2007RANK 2006RANK UNIVERSITY (BUSINESS SCHOOL)

1 1 ESADE

2 2 IMD

3 4 London Business School

4 3 IPADE

5 8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)

6 6 Columbia University

7 – Essec

8 7 Tecnológico de Monterrey (EGADE)

9 16 HEC Paris

10 5 Thunderbird

11 13 York University (Schulich)

2 9 Univer sity of We stern On1tario (Ivey)

13 14 University of Chicago

14 12 Instituto de Empresa

15 18 Insead

16 17 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

17 21 Bocconi University

18 19 Erasmus University (Rotterdam)

19 15 IESE

20 – Northwestern University (Kellogg)

21 20 Harvard University

22 – New York University (Stern)

23 – University of Oxford (Saïd)

24 22 University of Toronto (Rotman)

25 24 Stanford University

REGIONAL RANKING

This ranking is based on how recruiters rated each school on 21 attributes, their future plans to recruit there, and the number of survey respondents who said they had recruited recently at the school. These schools tend to draw many of their recruiters from their local regions.

2007RANK 2006RANK UNIVERSITY (BUSINESS SCHOOL)

1 3 Brigham Young University (Marriott)

2 7 Wake Forest University (Babcock)

3 2 Ohio State University (Fisher)

4 6 University of Rochester (Simon)

5 15 Indiana University (Kelley)

6 13 University of Florida (Warrington)

7 9 Louisiana State University (Ourso)

8 20 Emory University (Goizueta)

9 10 University at Buffalo/SUNY

10 8 University of Maryland (Smith)

11 1 Thunderbird

2 P urdue Uni versit4y (K1rannert)

13 19 Georgetown University (McDonough)

14 28 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)

15 21 Vanderbilt University (Owen)

16 14 University of Miami

17 17 College of William and Mary (Mason)

18 5 Michigan State University (Broad)

19 18 University of Texas, Austin (McCombs)

20 1 2 University of Denver (Daniels)

21 3 5 Babson College (F. W. Olin)

22 29 Southern Methodist University (Cox)

23 3 1 Texas A&M University (Mays)

24 23 Pennsylvania State University (Smeal)

25 3 7 Boston University

26 22 University of Washington

27 27 Fordham University

28 – University of Missouri, Columbia

29 3 4 University of California, Davis

30 44 Boston College (Carroll)

31 16 University of Iowa (Tippie)

2 5 3 Unive rsity of W iscons in, M2adison

33 26 Rice University (Jones)

34 43 University of Georgia (Terry)

35 30 Arizona State University (Carey)

36 – American University (Kogod)

37 42 Georgia Institute of Technology

38 40 University of Minnesota (Carlson)

39 39 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

40 32 University of Utah (Eccles)

41 46 University of Pittsburgh (Katz)

2 8 4 Unive rsity of Ca liforn ia, Irv3ine (Merage)

43 33 University of Arizona (Eller)

44 45 Pepperdine University (Graziadio)

45 41 George Washington University

46 36 Washington University (John M. Olin)

47 47 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

48 – Tulane University (Freeman)

49 49 University of South Carolina (Moore)

50 48 University of Colorado, Boulder (Leeds)

51 51 University of Connecticut

Business School Rank Score Card

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