"Just as Harvard must benefit from time to time from its proximity to Route 128...so Stanford will naturally try to exploit Silicon Valley," Williams Professor of history and political science Roderick MacFarquhar wrote in an e-mail message.
Stanford, more centralized and able to mobilize than some of its older peers, may be able to capitalize on the technology industry unlike any university ever before.
Fighting for Faculty
With the growing financial rewards of technology, Stanford may soon be able to compete even more aggressively for faculty members from Ivy League schools. And this may not be limited to just science and technology.
"Stanford is one of our major competitors for distinguished faculty now, certainly more so than Yale," Thompson says.
One department that's already been hard hit is the American section of the government department, where in 1998, Thomson Professor of Government Morris P. Fiorina packed his bags for a tenured position at Stanford. Theda Skocpol, another big name in that department, told The Crimson last year that she has talked to Stanford officials about heading West.
There's no doubt about it: Stanford has people worried.
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