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What 500 Harvard Case Studies Actually Do To Your Brain - E729
Jeremy Au takes the hot seat in a reverse interview hosted by Edric Poon to unpack the true value of a Harvard MBA and the fundamental principles of business leadership. Jeremy unbundles the prestigious degree into three core components: practical utility and learning, building a long-term global network, and acquiring a costly social credential. He shares actionable frameworks for effective leadership, emphasizing the necessity of decisive strategy, ruthless prioritization, and the ability to mobilize resources and capital. The conversation also explores the psychology behind the Harvard case study method, how pattern-matching helps leaders spot corporate fraud, and the harsh...
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What Harvard is trying to do is that they're trying to squeeze like 500 case studies into your brain. Your brain is a supercomputer and you grow up in one context, in one geography, one industry, one role. And our job is to put you in the positions, kind of like a multiverse, where you were the decision maker in Apple, in Atari, in Blackberry, in Samsung, in
Chanel and Louis Vuitton at a Doom startup as an R&D leader, right? As a whistleblower, as somebody who is facing bankruptcy, right? They're putting in these multiverse of decision maker roles and asking you to empathize with that person with the information that they had at that time and what you would do and decide. And then after you make a decision and debate that as a team,
reveal the outcome of that class. Hi everybody, hey, Edric here from Brave. Thanks so much for tuning in. Now it's a reverse interview. Jeremy's in the hot seat and there are so many questions I've been asking with regards to Harvard MBA. What do they teach there in terms of leadership and how is that applied in our part of the world? What's really interesting here is because Jeremy
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