Ivey Files

December 2, 2008

Don't Go to Business School?

Marketing guru (and Stanford GSB grad) Seth Godin makes this intriguing offer: Go intern for him for six months instead of getting an MBA. Deadline is December 14, 2008. Start date is January 19, 2009.

Hey Anna,

Thanks for pointing this out! I am at what you could call a "dip" in my life and trying to figure out the next step. I am applying to Seth's program -- and the plan if I don't get in is to spend the next 6 months doing something very similar -- working on really learning, reading a ton and changing so that I can form my next project.

Well, on the conference call today, I thought of a very interesting question. Will Seth be teaching the whole class? He is so focused on teaching community that, well I thought it might not make sense for him to be the only leader.

He in fact answered my question by stating that there would be visiting professors from other great minds/friends of his and then went on to elaborate in later questions, explaining that the class would almost be a team or community of its own, so everyone would be learning from each other!

Sounds very cool! Either way I am excited to see how the process goes.