HBS was by no means the only school at the center of the storm. Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld went to Stern (NYU), WaMu CEO Kerry Killinger got his M.B.A. at Iowa, Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson went to Wake Forest, and so on. It's not just Harvard.

As for the sciences, I don't see how genetics or cell structures or string theory help you understand anything about daily life. Scientific knowledge seems pretty narrowly tailored. Essential knowledge, but rather impractical. By contrast, the humanities teach you how to think critically and communicate, which are perhaps the only practical skills. And business schools (by this I'm referring to M.B.A. programs, not accounting or marketing majors) seem to be merely a stamp that lets other people know you're "acceptable", the professional equivalent of country club membership. Get a Ph.D. in economics instead.