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I am Gabby D'Agosto.
>> My name is Cengiz.
>> My name is Oyinda Ajayi,
I am a student here at the GSB.
>> I would describe the academic
experience at GSB as truly
multifaceted.
It is both theoretical and
practical at once.
It is applied but also abstract.
It is scholarly, but
at the same time quite feelings and
emotions based.
>> The academic experience here
really starts with building
a foundation in core business skill
sets, all of the things that will
make you a much more successful
manager in the end.
>> So I think one of the things
that's really great about
the Stanford Graduate School of
Business is that we recognize that
great leaders are both analytical
and intuitive at the same time.
That to really build great
organizations that are going to
change the world,
you have to be able to combine
these two very different skills.
You need the rigor of a scientist.
You need to be able to break down
the world into analytical pieces
and understand how those different
moving parts fit together.
At the same time, you need
the creativity of the artist, and
the insight and
the vision that is required to see
things that haven't existed yet.
>> I find it quite interesting
because there's a lot of code
switching going on,
where in one class I might be using
kind of the right side of my brain,
and another class might
not be really using my brain but
using my heart instead.
And, kind of those codes switchings
of what parts of my skill set and
talents, and mental frameworks am I
supposed to stretch, has been
a really fulfilling an interesting
experience in a way in which I
didn't think that it would be.
>> At the GSB,
we don't believe there's only
one right way to teach.
In the classroom you're going to
encounter lectures, you're going to
encounter case studies, you're
going to encounter simulations,
you're going to encounter role
plays, you're going to encounter
experiential learning.
All of these different varieties of
teaching and
learning are such a critical part
of what the GSB education is about.
>> Each professor approaches it
differently.
So there are a lot of simulations,
there are a lot of experiential
courses.
There's also a lot of classes that
focus on the case study.
And so each one
pushes you in a different way.
>> The experiential side of it
gives you an opportunity to now
test out some of the things you've
learned in class and
speaking to people.
And then the small group allows
you to get feedback,
one on one from your peer,
and be able to dig deeper into
your own personal growth.
>> Who teaches you really matters.
You're going to learn from both
world-class researchers, and
from leading business executives.
And we're going to bring them
together, and their interplay with
each other is really what's
going to make you understand
the craft of leadership >> Here at
the GSB we have both professors who
are tenured professors, and
professors who their
career's really based on research.
As well as people who are coming in
from the field that have companies,
or they run funds.
And so having the two come together
is hugely valuable.
>> I think learning from academic
researchers is important because
you see the numbers behind
behaviors.
You see why the decisions are being
made, and you're able to make
certain decisions, or
come to certain conclusions more
concretely because you have
information to back it.
>> On the practitioner side of
the equation, I love to hear from
the people who have been out there,
and have actually done these
things, to tell us about their
mistakes and about their regrets,
and about what they did best.
>> I think fundamentally,
the experience of being a student
here is transformational.
Students come in, thinking that
they're going to do one thing
with their lives, and they come out
a totally different person.
And, that's a product of what they
learn in the classroom,
it's a product of what they learn
from their fellow students,
it's a product of what they learn
from their faculty members.
It is an amazing, transformational
experience to be here at the GSB.
You think about the world
differently once you have been
here, and you are positioned to go
out and do really great things.
>> For students who are yet to come
and be a part of our wonderful GSP
community, the academic program
is quite rigorous.
I would say coming in with
expectations that
you will be learning a lot, and
it will be a lot in the best way.
>> For anyone thinking of business
school as a next step,
I would say absolutely do it.
You cannot imagine the amount of
growth and opportunities that
come with this experience.
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