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Philip broughton first introduced three courses: accounting, finance and technology, and operation management. He said that these three courses are the most required courses with mathematical characteristics in the first year of Harvard MBA.

Professors also have their own characteristics. Professor David Hawkins is an outspoken Australian who teaches accounting. The first lesson left a deep impression on people: even in the simplest case, how difficult it is to discover the economic truth.

"In the field of accounting, using common sense is more important than sticking to the rules."

Mihir Desai, a finance professor, is a young Indian professor with a slender figure and long fingers. He encouraged his classmates to abandon any preconceptions they might have, thinking that people who know finance should study again, while those who know nothing about finance will start a great adventure.

And the energetic Ms. Frances Frye, always dressed as a boy, wearing a men's shirt and black silk pants. She teaches technology and operation management.

These professors are all real people. Broughton clearly pointed out in the preface that the book describes real people, but in order to cover up the identity of some classmates, some names and details were changed. But because the teacher's identity is facing the public, the descriptions in the book are all true words and deeds.

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The MBA course in the first year of Harvard Business School is called a compulsory course, which includes 10 courses, 5 courses per semester, aiming at covering the basic principles of business. In the first semester, in addition to the three courses mentioned above, there are also marketing and leadership, organizational behavior. The second semester includes finance (II), negotiation, strategy, leadership and corporate responsibility, as well as business, government and international economy.

The second year is some elective courses, including enterprise marketing, dynamic market, strategy and technology, international financial management and so on.

2. Yan Jinkuan

Harvard MBA is undoubtedly synonymous with social elite.

At the welcoming banquet, Philip broughton heard the opening remarks of Kim Clark, Dean of Harvard Business School: "When I first came to this classroom, there was a guy named Jack sitting there. He is now Jack Brennan, president of Pioneer Group (the world's largest non-fee fund family, with assets under management of more than $370 billion). There is a former Dartmouth football player named Jeff over there. Jeff Immelt is now the chairman of General Electric Company. That's Donna, Donna Dobinsky, who later became the CEO of the PDA company.

Of course, we can also list a long list of celebrities, such as the President of the United States, the Treasury Secretary of the United States and the President of the World Bank.

"Do you think, 25 years later, the classmate sitting next to you is the CEO of which giant company? What is your role? " Hearing this, broughton, who has worked for more than ten years, still has room for his imagination.

After reading Made in Harvard, I was deeply impressed by the strictness of Harvard admission: submitting detailed application materials, accepting interviews and interviews with Harvard graduates, etc. But what is even more impressive is that as long as you enter Harvard Business School, it is difficult to graduate.

The author's description is like this:

50% of Harvard MBA scores depend on classroom performance-the quality and frequency of classroom comments, and the other 50% depends on the results of midterm and final exams.

"The first mid-term exam is coming. The challenge facing the school is to convince more than 900 students who will not take the exam seriously not to take it too seriously. It is almost impossible to launch Harvard Business School because of failure. "

"If you attend class on time but keep silent, the professor will finally pick you out and let you speak, so as to get credits. If you are ranked at the last 10% in every course, the school will give you warnings, help and various support in order not to let you drop out of school. "

"If you want to quit because of failure, you can only succeed by skipping classes and treating everyone who wants to help you meanly."

3. Harvard MBA is an "unsafe high flyers"

Small class system is the most radical measure of Harvard Business School in socialization and interpersonal network construction. Throughout the first year, students must attend each class, with a fixed number of 90 students.

Although no one is facing unemployment or fighting for the minimum guaranteed wage, the author says that the self-title of "unsafe top students" is often mentioned in small classes.

Such as his Arab classmate Hassan. He likes the academic work of Harvard Business School, but he feels that the atmosphere of communication is suffocating.

"Here we feel that everyone pays too much attention to the status and personal brand in the network, and they are very relaxed, asking everyone to be the same in all occasions."

Small class exchange, let a person who has done consulting talk about consulting, and the person who is an investment bank talk about investment banking business. Both sides have learned an amazing lesson: don't enter any industry, they will isolate you from life. Both students said that if you accept the high salaries offered by those companies, then you must agree to hand over your life to them. They don't respect your time.

The reality is that these two industries are well paid and are the first choice for most Harvard MBA students. It's worrying enough.

4. Why do you want to study for an MBA? Is there any interesting knowledge?

There are various reasons for applying to study in business schools, but they can usually be divided into two categories: one is clearly aware of one's own purpose, and the other is slightly aware of one's own purpose. The first category includes companies that send employees to business schools for a long time. The second category includes people who know they want to change but don't know how. They hope that business schools can give them an answer, or at least give them a fresh choice.

◎ stanford graduate school of business is famous for cultivating Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and Kellogg Business School of Northwest University is famous for marketing; Wharton school is famous for cultivating financiers who pay attention to Wall Street. Columbia University pays attention to the economic changes in new york; MIT's Si Long School of Management is famous for training engineers and scientists who want to apply their ideas to business.

Harvard University focuses on comprehensive management, which prepares you for managing and leading all aspects of business, without any special professional direction.