Larry Chiang never got his MBA but was featured at Harvard and Stanford Business School. Harbus, featured him in a cover story that shares the same title as his book, “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School“. He refuses to put “NY Times best selling author” next to his name in bios and plods forward with his anti-marketing, marketing approach. His secrets about hacking into higher learning are revealed in this post that is sure to be an instant-classic.
 What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School |
By Larry Chiang
People think I just crash parties.
I crash an entire business school program.
I infiltrated an awesome program b-school: Stanford University. They call it the GSB, Graduate School of Business, but they actually cut and pasted University of Chicago which is the original GSB. Anyway, in this post, I will show you how to know EVERYTHING they know and then some.
It is the foundation for my book, “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School” and, for the record, “no” I did not go to Stanford 😀
You can learn what each GSB grad knows because it is free and “open source” education. That is right. Open. Stanford is not the only school that is open source because Harvard Law and MIT Engineering are the same way. This post will show in vivid detail how to “Learn What They Teach You At Stanford Business School BEFORE You Get In”.
Courses and their Syllabus-es (aka Syllabi)
Stanford posts courses here, here and everywhere. The bookstore has the required reading. A book like Grousbeck’s entrepreneurship book is written so that a freshman in engineering can read and comprehend it as a walk-in-the-park elective.
Learning from OPM/OPE.
OPM = other peoples mistakes
OPE = other peoples experience
Case studies are compiled. They’re available for $2-8 at Harvard.edu and Harvard Business Press. There are illegal downloads available at the same sites that do peer-to-peer music file sharing stealing. Also, you can buy the books used at Amazon.com
Learning on-campus
VLAB hosts events where great speakers are invited. The GSB hosts events open to the community. BASES produces events. Y-Combinator hosts Start-Up School on campus.
If you wanna learn, the free and low-cost alternatives are boundless.
Newsletters.
Subscribe away. Google “Stanford Business School newsletters”.
Participating in GSB Conferences
STVP is Stanford Technology Venture Partners hosts Summit at Stanford where the conference is $3,000, but the live webcast is free here, here, here here and here. It was also free to ask questions live. Another example is the Annual Entrepreneurship Conference. The cost is $90. Its a full week of events where you’re eligible to enter a contest with a team with very valuable prizes. And in the spirit of Stanford, the prize for 12th place and 1st place isn’t that big of a difference.
If you wanna attend live Stanford GSB events, you only have to pay for gas.
People want the degree but really don’t want the real knowledge that takes work to get. I’m glad that you got a laugh out of this post but comment below how you’re going to use this information.
Speed Reading (Because you’ll run out of time before you run out of free stuff to read).
Bill Clinton read three books a day while he was President. Reading 1000+ words per minute is possible. Read Evelyn Woods book on speed reading.
Heck, the GSB even has a Twitter feed to read
NOTE: This was part of my book, “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School” Chapter 2: Treasure Management. You do not need permission to reprint this as there is no copyright.
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 Larry is writing a sequel to a book he did not write. It comes out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘.
Larry’s book releases 09-09-09 |
This post was cranked out in about an hour so email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… larry@larrychiang com
Larry Chiang is the founder of Deep Underground Credit Knowledge 9 (Duck9). He hacked Fair Isaac’s FICO credit algorithm and battles lies told by the credit industry such as Fair Isaac’s claim that the average FICO is 720. The real average is 535.
Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line.
Larry speaks on stuff they don't teach in B-school to help you get street smart in doing business. In college, he started a business that helps college students with their FICO score. He loves entrepreneurs, Ben and Jerry's ice cream and after parties. You can reach him at:
