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A Day in the Life: Harvard Business School - YouTube
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- Hey everybody, welcome
to Harvard Business School.
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I'm a second year student
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in the elective curriculum, or EC.
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Welcome in, and I'm
excited to show you my day.
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So in your first year,
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the day begins with a meeting
with your discussion group
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at eight o'clock in the morning,
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when you'll go over all of the cases
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that you have for the upcoming day.
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The discussion group is comprised
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of students from other sections.
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So they won't be in your
actual classes later,
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but it gives you a chance to compare notes
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on the projects that
you've been working on
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and the cases that you've got coming up,
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coming up that day.
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Now, after your discussion group,
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you'll disperse and
you'll join your section
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in your classroom over in Aldrich Hall.
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It's a group of about 90 other students,
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and with those students,
you'll discuss all of the cases
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in a variety of classes for each day.
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The afternoons are free and wide open
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for a variety of
extracurricular activities,
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from intermurals to club meetings,
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and networking with professional firms.
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In the second year though,
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your days are a little bit
less structured, right.
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You have the opportunity to
structure it for yourself
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and pick and choose when
and how you would like
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to have your class meetings.
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So sometimes you end up with
more open time in the morning,
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and then time in the afternoon
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for longer seminar-style courses.
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Some students choose simply to try
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to replicate the course
structure of the first year,
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the required curriculum,
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but it really depends and it's up to you
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by the time you get to your second year.
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So in the second year, or
the elective curriculum,
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you have the opportunity to choose
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from a listing of about a
hundred different courses,
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spanning the units of
organizational behavior,
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finance, marketing, really anything
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that HBS has faculty specialty in.
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Now for my part, I'm
particularly interested
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in entrepreneurship
strategy and negotiations,
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and my course schedule reflects that.
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I'm in a course called
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Building and Sustaining
Successful Enterprises,
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or BSSE, which is the legacy of one
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of our professors named
Clayton Christensen.
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This course gives you an overview
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of business theory and disruption theory.
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Another course I'm in
is a negotiations class,
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taught by a former private equity partner.
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This gives us a really good opportunity
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to see how deals are
structured in the real world,
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and to find what is a
personal negotiating style
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for each of us.
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Another course I'm in,
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this is something that I'm taking for fun
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and out of a personal interest,
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is on the business of
entertainment, media, and sports.
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This course is taught by one
of our rockstar professors,
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Anita Elberse.
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Now Professor Elberse has
made a distinguished name
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for herself in researching
and understanding the business
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of entertainment, media, and sports.
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She's befriended, studied, researched,
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and advised countless celebrities
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in the sports and entertainment worlds,
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and she brings them into class.
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We've had everyone from Channing Tatum
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to Lindsey Vonn come in and speak to us
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about how they've made the jump
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from a career leveraging their talent
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to understanding how they
can become business people
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and really broaden their interests
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and their involvement
in how they are going
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to leverage their own skills.
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That course is also
something that dovetails
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with a program that helps athletes
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and helps entertainment personalities
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actually make that transition.
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So I'm a mentor to a former
professional basketball player
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who's trying to build a
restaurant and real estate empire.
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And this fits in nicely to the curriculum,
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which is a unique opportunity
for the second year.
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I'm also doing an independent
project with my lead,
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or leadership and organizational
development professor
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from my first year.
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In this independent project,
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I'm studying the paths and profiles
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of a couple hundred HBS alumni,
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and following and tracing
their tracing their footsteps
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and decisions they've made
throughout their career
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to see if there's anything
that we can learn about
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that is applicable to those of
us who are studying here now.
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Lastly, I'm in a course called Field X.
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It's a entrepreneurship practicum
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that gives us, as HBS students,
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the resources to go out and
work on independent ventures
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that we're interested in
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and researching the market for,
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testing hypothesis around
if we can build a product
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that is going to be
desirable in the market,
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and the professor in that
brings in dozens upon dozens
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of entrepreneurs who have actually gone
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and scaled businesses before.
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They're available to us to
test us our business ideas,
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and this really kind of
gives you an overview of,
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the first year is very foundational,
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the second year, which I'm in now,
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gives you a chance to put everything
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that you've learned to practice.
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Anybody considering applying
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to business school likely
understands the considerable time
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and financial investment that it entails,
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and to undertake that sort of investment,
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and even think about how
your application will relate
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to the need for it, I
think it's really helpful
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to undergo a really
reflective exercise that is,
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what is it that you may want to do
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with your career five, 10, 20 years
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after completing a degree,
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and what is it about
your program specifically
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that's going to get you to that place?
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And really drill down into
the very tactical resources
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and programs, classes,
people you're going to meet,
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all the things that you
will take advantage of
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that will get you to where
you would like to be,
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'cause without that, you
might be directionless.
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Now I don't doubt that anybody is going
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to enter into this investment
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without understanding that direction.
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But going through this reflective exercise
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also helps you best communicate that
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through the story of your application
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and bring others on board
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so that by the time that you get here,
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they'll be best situated to be able
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to help you along that journey.
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There are two things that stand out to me
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that I think really makes
Harvard Business School
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a unique academic experience
for an MBA program,
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the first of which is the case study,
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which has been around for a century now,
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and there are some legacy cases here
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that thousands of Harvard
Business School alumni
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have worked through and struggled through,
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and it creates a common
vocabulary and lexicon
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when you go out into the world
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because you can think
about business decisions
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that leaders before you have faced.
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And then you can understand,
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maybe it was not just like this before,
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but there are many elements
from something that I saw,
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this real life business
situation that I saw,
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and a real life business leader
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who perhaps even came in to visit class.
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And you might be able to ascertain
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where there's commonality there.
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And who knows, you might
also be working with somebody
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who a decade or two previously,
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worked through that same problem
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and can understand it in the
same context that you do.
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The second thing, and you know,
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looking around us really comes to life,
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is that this is a residential campus
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and a residential learning
model at its core.
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So the people that you
spend your days with
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in the classroom, in your section,
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even outside of your section,
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are also those that you encounter
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on the intermural fields,
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walking around, playing
spikeball on the lawn.
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Even the dean lives just
across the lawn from us here,
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so everybody that you
could conceive of meeting,
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you're going to run into on a daily basis.
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That creates incredible opportunities
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for very casual and informal learning
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and deep, deep friendships.
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Thanks for hanging out with
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