Stanford has a business school, doesn't it?

Schwab. I worked across from it in the reclaimed basement of Toyon like some sort of hidden Brazil ductwork steampunk menagerie for workers. Their IT department was well-regarded because each department did their own thing, which was inherently efficient in flexibility, control, and service but not in cost of delivery. I was an obsessive control freak, wannabe computer science researcher, and LTT-like PC putter-togetherer masquerading as a Windows sysadmin playing with a $100k budget trying to get barcodes on every single cable, every single asset tagged, inventoried, and reporting basic info 24x7, having everything racked in a real datacenter rather than the housing draw NetBSD "server" desktop going brrrr behind my head, and adopting DR/BCP so that the organization could survive another semi-malicious Microsoft RCE worm or maybe a building fire (the datacenter had FM200).

Not quite sure what point you're making, but it brings to mind what my academic friend often says which is that the economic faculty staff are the worst when it comes to contributing to the general tasks the whole set of academic staff has to do. It's almost like they feel the need to justify their constant advocating that being a shitty person is the rational thing to do, but of course it only ever works because other people pick up the chores.