Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.
All the lessons I learned from my grandfather from the day I was born until the day he passed away served me well, and I think about them and use them every day. It was much more valuable than any business school could have provided.
I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.
I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.
