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Topic: Puff Piece or Beyond? CNBC: Inside Harvard Business School (Netflix)

Altra_Shadowstalker Posts: 17,553 Registered: Jan 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 16,076 User ID: 616,837	Subject: Puff Piece or Beyond? CNBC: Inside Harvard Business School (Netflix)
	This was a giant propaganda piece that had me laughing aloud at some of its overt ass licking. It was almost as if they were trying to paint the entire money industry with their HBS brush. Basically saying, don't hate the rich because we're successful, we had to put up with a business boot camp and spend a lot of money to get here. They mentioned it cost $160,000 for 2 years about 5 times throughout the show. The below examples don't really support my link between HBS and the rich, but the show does a great job of intertwining the two (beyond what the school is designed for.) They put the President of the school up there and he basically apologized for the Enron CEO who went there. He then goes on to say, 'Well, we're actually kind of proud about the low statistics of bad seeds' but he trails off at the end, looking really ashamed that he was trying to excuse it. The kicker is when they put this lady up who was diagnosed with cancer. She basically was like, "I went to Harvard Business School, I refuse to die!" and so she invested a lot of money into the cancer research programs, and PRESTO! they came up with a bunch of cures! (You too can cheat death if you have money!) What really got me though, is the interviewer, who throughout the show has lead the people he interviews with his big smiles and nods, and prompting questions, literally says, "So you could say... that Harvard Business School saved your life!" She nods vigerously, and they show insert a clip earlier of her saying, "HBS literally saved my life." To "balance" their bias, they interview a guy whose basically like, "Bill Gates didn't go, the Google guys didn't go. Warren Buffet didn't go. What's the point if you can succeed without it?" /facepalm. That's really their counter-argument: You can actually succeed even if you don't go to HBS! The individual success stories were interesting (I wasn't trying to knock the lady who beat her cancer, just their presentation), but the only useful thing I gleamed from watching it was if you want to succeed, you have to invest 36 hours every day into your project. I wouldn't recommend watching it unless you're planning on applying. -----signature----- "Goddammit, Swearengen, I don't trust you as far as I could th'ow you, but I enjoy the way you lie." I don't typo often, but when I do, I blame Swype.
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