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Being able to work on group projects, being able to practice role-plays with my
classmates, being able to provide and receive direct feedback.
All these require me to work with other people.
All of these require me to get outside my comfort zone and learn and
stretch and grow.
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>> Being a student in my classrooms at the GSB is not a spectator sport.
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>> Their notion is that, depending on the kind of class we have, the instructor, and
the goals, that they pick the pedagogy that works best for them.
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>> Professor Grousbeck, who is a serious entrepreneur,
founded probably 15 companies in his life.
>> Make sure you understand- >> Role-playing with him, how to fire and
hire people, being respectful but still direct,
was one of the most amazing experiences I had.
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>> If you're learning something which is more hardcore,
you really need a lecture-based approach to kind of soak in the information.
>> I teach a class in our core which we call Foundations on Management Accounting.
And they wanted to figure out which product actually makes the money, right,
they had no idea.
Given the nature of the material, much of what I do is lecture.
>> And then you have all these projects where you apply this information.
>> [LAUGH] >> Very,
very transformational idea that came across in the lecture that I really value.
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>> Feedback is one of the core components of the Stanford GSB experience.
>> And you're hit with it really from day one
>> When this situation occurred,
here's how you reacted, and here's how that came off.
>> And then you receive feedback on how the feedback you gave landed.
>> What that allowed me to do was go back and fix those specific behaviors.
>> So if you think about becoming a manager someday,
that's really important to know, how your feedback comes across.
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>> From the global study trip, I think the one thing I'll never forget is probably
meeting the sitting president of Rwanda.
Paul Kagame, the man who's credited for ending the genocide.
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>> The interplay between the two of them, the back and forth.
And sometimes hearing the different perspectives
was hugely helpful in informing how I think about business.
What I want to do, who I want to be, and how I want to react.
>> The one thing that GSB stresses is that we don't want to be wedded to any one
particular method.
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>> By far my best experience was a simulation of the UN with
Professor Condoleezza Rice, as part of her global class.
>> It was about the European crisis.
>> We actually represented Russia.
>> I, being from Germany, had to play Greece against Germany.
>> 48 hours later, we presented to the former secretary of the state.
>> It was just, it was amazing.
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>> If you're going to learn how to exercise judgment in the context of
complex situation, to me, cases is the best way to do it.
>> Okay, yeah.
>> What might you do to try to negotiate?
>> I think that's a way to buy some time.
>> Buy some time, how much it going to cost?
>> We use the case as a platform to role-play and
to discuss management issues.
>> And that is so helpful, because they bring the context, the situation,
the milieu that the case was actually involved in.
And that's something that's missing in just case, hard fact.
>> And though we might have studied the case before with the best
solution in mind.
Once we got there and saw the facts on the ground, the reality was much different.
>> Let me also just go through the question.
What was the problem, quickly?
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>> When I was accepted at Stanford, one of the first things I did was to figure out
how I could into Extreme Affordability.
So we come in, and we actually take all these different ideas.
And when one idea comes in that's very eccentric or wild and
loud, it actually spurs an idea that's a little more acceptable and meaningful.
>> The rest of these are really nice solutions to ethical problems, but
that one kind of like- >> And
then pretty soon we find ourselves going down this path together,
even though we're from various different backgrounds, to solve this common need.
I think it's really opened my eyes to some of the interesting insights that can come
out of students from the law school, students from the medical school.
It's been fantastic.
>> The students are always getting cutting-edge knowledge.
There are always classes being taught here that would never be taught anywhere else.
Because no one else is even thinking about the application of what
we're doing to business.
>> I wish I could take all the knowledge I've learned in the last year and a half.
Have that with me, and go back and do this experience all over again.
>> There is no question that it's more engaging.
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