- Nov 07, 2020
Business School Quotes
What business school teaches and what it doesn't.
These business school quotes question how much a formal Business curriculum actually prepares people, versus common sense, a lab, or a workshop.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's pretty challenging in a small country to develop a business school with a world-class reputation because of the problem of attracting a critical mass of top-class researchers.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a student of a business school in Delhi and went back for my final semester exams.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't it interesting that markets are not just perfect? In business school and economic theory, you learn all about those perfect markets, and there's no such thing as a perfect market.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020