Banks will be a guest lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in May, co-teaching 25 MBA students how to shape their personal brand. The model mogul will teach students how to use traditional and social media to their advantage and how to handle the ups and downs of business.
The supermodel/mogul is set to lecture and co-teach a class on creating and protecting brands at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, the Wall Street Journal reports. About 25 graduate students will have the opportunity to enroll in the course and learn from Banks for two weeks next May.
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Tyra Banks is slated to make her teaching debut at the school as a guest lecturer, co-teaching a class on creating and protecting a personal brand. Some 25 graduate students will receive instruction from Ms. Banks on how to harness all forms of old and new media to showcase their strengths.
In 2000, Oprah Winfrey taught a “Dynamics of Leadership” class at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Notable students are making star turns at B-schools, too.
Notable students are making star turns at B-schools, too. In the wake of a doping ban, tennis player Maria Sharapova enrolled in an executive-education course at Harvard Business School this summer. Ms. Banks herself completed an HBS executive-education program in 2012. To Read the Full Story.
Berdugo took the class in order to establish a personal brand as an entrepreneur and a thought leader in the real estate technology sector, while students like Samantha Dong took the class, in part, to become more comfortable with being in the spotlight since she intends to be a chief executive of her own company.
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Yes, Tyra Banks, the model, e ntrepreneur, television executive and business CEO added guest-lecturer to her curriculum vitae when she taught " Project You: Building and Extending your Personal Brand ." The class, which ran from May 8, 2017 to May 19, 2017 consisted of topics like parsing through what a personal brand is and understanding how it can be a valuable and competitive advantage, how one can differentiate themselves, and how students could use social and traditional media to enhance their brand, as well as figuring out when to pivot and evolve their brand. It was an opportunity for students to break out of their academic mold and discover what made their stories unique and powerful, as well as an opportunity to Banks herself to find out the rigors and excitement of teaching a graduate-level course and explore what her next professional venture (s) may be.
She shared her vast experiences with the audience, from cold-calling Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh for advice to hiring the right people to execute her vision.
Banks knows a thing or two about branding, having launched her own cosmetics start up, production company and charity in addition to hosting The Tyra Banks Show and creating the highly successful reality series, America's Next Top Model.