{"id":6310,"date":"2011-02-18T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T20:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2011-02-16T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T20:53:45","slug":"mba-life-on-youtube-inside-the-hbs-case-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-life-on-youtube-inside-the-hbs-case-method\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Life on Youtube: Inside the HBS Case Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eA5R41F7d9Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Andy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knewton.com\/blog\/gmat\/mba-admissions\/2010\/11\/02\/mba-program-resource-page\">wrote about<\/a> a while back, business schools post a lot of amazing resources online for aspiring MBAs to learn about their offerings. Harvard Business School has some great videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HarvardBSchool\">its Youtube channel<\/a> that walk students through the HBS approach to an MBA education.<\/p>\n<p>This video, \"Inside the HBS Case Method,\" explains one of the central tenets of the Harvard b-school curriculum: structuring classes around actual case studies from the business world.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to get students in the habit of making the kinds of real-world business decisions they'll have to make when they graduate. It's also a great way of engaging students, since preparation is the only way to dive into a given case. As She-Rae Chen, a first-year student puts it, \"It's crucial. If you aren't prepared for the class you can't engage as much; you can't have a kind of friendly dynamic discussion with all your classmates.\"<\/p>\n<p>Check it out to learn more about how the process works: from the teaching groups, which professors prepare for as much as students, to the extensive prep that students do outside of class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Andy wrote about a while back, business schools post a lot of amazing resources online for aspiring MBAs to learn about their offerings. Harvard Business School has some great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}