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Professors have scrambled for a piece of the action, too. Singh asked a business law professor for legal assistance and invited Sawhney to become a member of EthnicGrocer.com’s board. He accepted.

Many students exit Kellogg and join management teams at the likes of Amazon.com, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel. More than 300 firms recruit on campus, and all of Kellogg’s graduates find employment within three months, according to Rich Honack, director of marketing and communications for the school. “We’ve been going to Kellogg for many years…. [Kellogg grads] have very strong marketing skills and they tend to be creative,” says Devin Cless, recruiting manager for Microsoft, which has hired dozens of Kellogg students in the past.The best business school in the country is:

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Still, some recruiters say Kellogg graduates might suffer a slight disadvantage in being far from Silicon Valley. “I don’t think Kellogg students are any less prepared, but they certainly don’t have the same kind of access to high-tech startups,” says Chuck Baren, a recruiter for consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

To compensate for Kellogg’s geographical handicap, Sawhney leads students on an intensive one-week research tour of more than 50 companies in the Bay Area. Students can also visit Los Angeles entertainment companies, and volunteer at a global convergence meeting sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

One of Sawhney’s students caught the California bug and signed on to work at the San Francisco venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners for the summer.

“I’ve been shocked at how helpful [Kellogg courses] have been. The strategy classes introduced me to all these ideas that I’d never thought of, like how to make your business defensible, how do you do competitive analysis, how do you differentiate yourself, and how to position what you’re doing,” says Ivan Sheldon, a second-year student. Hummer Winblad backs many Internet ventures.

Competition for admission is very stiff. Only 9 percent of 7,000 applicants were accepted for enrollment in September. Attracting students clearly is no problem, but finding Internet-savvy teachers is. “There just aren’t enough people. Senior colleagues are finding it hard to reinvent themselves because of the pace of changes the Internet has wrought,” says Sawhney.