Business Schools Win Some, Lose Some From the Fall of the Dot-Com Economy

Applications are up, but the new e-commerce programs aren't popular anymore

Derek Peterson left a corporate-finance job in Denver a year ago to stake his claim in Austin's booming high-tech market. Like hundreds who flocked here with hopes of being the next Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, he watched with alarm months later as Austin's sizzling economy began to cool.

With a wife and two young children to support, he joined an exodus of dot-com refugees heading to

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