Tyra Banks at HBS?
So I can't sleep tonight and flipped on Jimmy Fallon - Tyra Banks is tonight's guest. I'm kind of zoned out until I hear Jimmy ask "So Tyra, I hear you're back in school?" Tyra responds "OMG yes! I'm a student at the Harvard Business School!"
My jaw hit the floor. I know top schools of all kinds typically admit a handful of celebrities, but come on Harvard - Tyra Banks? Really? America's Next Top MBA?
If I were one of those 4.0 Ivy league megafund guys that got rejected this year, I'd be jumping off a bridge right about now...
I wonder if she even took GMAT. I think someone has at least get 600 on GMAT to get in H/S/W regardless his/her social status. Unfortunately, life isn't always fair.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_net_worth_of_tyra_banks
While I dislike Tyra, I wouldn't think that she is by any means dumb
140mm... holy shit man
She is in the executive education program in advanced management or something, not the MBA.
Well she is a URM...
Ya I know someone who actually is best friends with Tyra and she is in some bootleg extension program...
Very true story...Also, note who Tyra is (Utandhal at DB)... She is as good as in IBD post graduation.
According to Wikipedia, the Owner/President Management Program does not award degrees and neither a college diploma nor standardized test scores are required for admission.
So what the fuck is it, a brunch bunch for people to talk about...I have no idea what they would talk about
executive eduation... not MBA
That would be OBSCENE if she was at HBS.
FT commented on this some time back - she is registered for something called "Owner/President Management Program" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1af71f8e-3b96-11e0-a96d-00144feabdc0.html#axz…
Aiming to be America’s Next Top Student By Lucy Kellaway Published: February 20 2011 18:43 | Last updated: February 20 2011 18:43 She is beautiful, rich and famous. She has two television shows, one of which is named after her. She’s got her own foundation that helps deprived girls. She’s been to bed with Barack Obama. She is taking a course at Harvard Business School on how to be an entrepreneur.
All morning I’ve been attempting to make sense of Tyra Banks’ achievements, but there is one detail that keeps tripping me up. It’s not the fact that the supermodel bedded the president – as in truth, she only went to bed with someone pretending to be him while she pretended to be Michelle for a photo shoot in Harper’s Bazaar. The bit that I can’t make any sense of is the news that she has enrolled at HBS.
There are three reasons people pay through the nose to go there. Some want to learn how to make money. But Tyra knows how to do that already. Some want to meet people who will help them make money. But Tyra’s dance card is already full enough with business contacts – her boyfriend has been called the most successful black investment banker in the US. And some go because they hope employers will think the Harvard badge is worth paying extra for. But Tyra is not going to be applying for any job, so this doesn’t apply either.
Tyra may be doing something entirely novel. She may have enrolled purely and simply because she believes she will learn something.
The course she has registered on is the Owner/President Management Program, which consists of a mere three weeks a year for three years at a total cost of almost $100,000 – or about $2,000 per day. To get an idea what this buys, I watched a video in which one of the professors, Lynda Applegate, drones on in front of a flow chart on which arrows representing “Strategy”, “Value” and “Capabilities” are linked together in a circle. I sincerely hope Tyra will have the wit to see that such things are more vacuous than virtuous.
To get this dreary prof out of my mind, I then watched a clip on YouTube of Tyra herself in action on America’s Next Top Model. To one contestant she says in a voice like honey: “I admire your emotion right now.” To another she lets rip: “How dare you! Stop it! Learn something from this!” Both carrots and sticks are things of beauty. She is sweet and terrifying and entirely charismatic. Tyra should be teaching Lynda something about leadership – not vice versa.
At the very least, the model will have the chance to learn a whole new language. Here is how she currently expresses herself on Twitter, talk sufficiently engaging to have got more than 2.6m followers: “BellyButton talk time! I used to be outtie, now I’m innie. Weird. Maybe I am an alien ... U outtie or innie? N how often u clean it?”
It’s quite a stretch from bellybuttons to the language spoken by her classmates. One alumnus is quoted on HBS’s website saying: “The interaction with fellow attendees on a personal level ... facilitated powerful interlearning.” Another attests that it helped him see his business from a “globalistic point of view”.
Even if Tyra can pick up the argot in a few weeks, I’m worried what will happen as a result. If she tries talking on TV about globalistic views and facilitating powerful interlearning she may find ratings collapse and that she is out on her pretty ear.
There is only one way in which Tyra’s trip to Harvard makes any sense. She never went to college and it’s possible that, like many self-made people, she feels that there is something she’s missed out on. In the Harper’s Bazaar shoot both members of the faux First Couple were wearing Harvard sweatshirts. Maybe Tyra just longs for one for real. Going to HBS puts Polyfilla in that chip on her shoulder.
In the end, this story is about brands. While nothing tangible has been created, everyone’s brand gets miraculously enhanced. A model sits in a classroom for a few weeks while people talk tediously, and thus she extends her brand of beauty to include brains, too. Harvard Business School’s fusty brand, meanwhile, gets a frosting of glamour – while it pockets cash from another sucker.
And what of Tyra’s coursemates, who are mostly male and mostly plain? She has posted a picture of them on Twitter and written: “Enriching my mind with these amazing buddies! They are sooooo intelligent! Geniuses!!!” The geniuses are smiling more broadly than is normal in class photos. Value appears to have been created for them too. Tyra at Harvard is win-win-win, all the way.
Wait, what?
brilliant. i mean, she is a much better choice than some boring career-blind megafund nerd. way more successful, way broader experience, way better network than any of these losers that we admire.. how is this even a reason to be pissed? i would love to be enrolled the same year.. might even give you a once-in-a-lifetime shot to bang her.. would certainly be my priority during those 2 years. no matter how fucking annoying she might be.
[quote=PeterN.]brilliant. i mean, she is a much better choice than some boring career-blind megafund nerd. way more successful, way broader experience, way better network than any of these losers that we admire.. quote]
THIS.
honestly, she has built a career and a brand name. i dont see a problem with this at all
millionaire model and entrepreneur???
pshhhh she didn't even work at GS TMT or TPG !!! What good is she??
Much better than the threads you start firefighter. I actually laughed at this one.
wow. i mean props to her for going for it. dont think she needs the money
She isn't doing an MBA though, dude.
No. She's pursuing an Executive Education programme. This is a different gravy altogether and is essentially a few days a year. She will not be awarded a degree for it.
i'm not suprised, look at all the stuff she's done. Her own talk show, and she started a couple of foundations. She probably could have made a 500 on the GMAT and got in.
Something tells me firefighter was being facetious :)
"Tyra’s taking an executive education class at Harvard Business School specifically for entrepreneurs!" quote from a boston newspaper.
So she's taking A CLASS, shes not a full time HBS student.......
Even if she was doing MBA, whats the problem? As long as she can articulate why she wants an MBA and how it will help her career, I don't see the problem. HBS admits kids with lower GMAT's. I don't know about her educational background or grades so I can't comment on that.
I love when I read posts such as, "I bet she didn't even take the GMAT..."
She's self made and she's worth > $100 MM. Fuck the GMAT...
Ah, relieved to hear it's just a class/program for rich people and not the "standard" MBA. Agree she's been very successful, but that definitely doesn't correlate with smart or savvy - looks and a big personality can (and do) get you very far in this world. Have you ever heard the woman speak?
So really she should stop going around and tell people "I am enrolled in the MBA program at HBS", which was her quote on Jimmy Fallon last night.
you guys need to stop "playa hating". In my book, if she makes $30 million a year, shes a fkin genius.
If I looked like her, I would be making that money too...from extorting those dudes at KKR (you all love to beat off to) after they banged me and I 'forgot' my pill that week.
wait. so anyone know how these extortion calls go?
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