Cold Call

Alumni recall the anxiety and exhilaration of being cold called by a professor during their time at HBS. Video created for the launch of The Campaign for Harvard Business School in 2002.

[@JoshuaRGill-xk9mx]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@roshansingh8040]

Although this may seem absurd, I found this incredibly motivational as a undergrad student at a small university in the U.K. Hopefully one day I can experience this.

[@babatunde854]

Hey man same

[@i123456987654]

what a great video...i love the music

[@ashishc7900]

amazing video

[@justinrogers8166]

This happens to lots of students across all universities 😅…

[@nareshkumaradepu5672]

Wow

[@jean-michelbendaci2564]

Classified folder

[@nowisthetime12]

who else but Harvard MBA would have a video about the most banal experiences in any college classroom. Wow! like cold calls never occur anywhere else; but oh, wait, it's Harvard MBA! Let's keep the mystique going: next up Seating Charts!

[@xjkxkxkkxkxk9052]

@Sebastian Smith What on earth are you talking about?

[@aocplusme5676]

We found the people from Yale!

[@LoveThatRod]

Any HBS student that played varsity high school baseball knows the rigor of Cold Call - all baseball players on the field before EVERY pitch ask themselves “what will I do, if the ball is hit to me?” mentally be prepared - physically know how to act - Cold Call is same thing - be mentally prepared and keep your physical composure

[@Fluterra]

It’s actually not the same. Why? Because every case, every class, and every day is different. You don’t know what to expect. In your analogy, it’s the same game (baseball). Every HBS class is completely different.

[@mairathorn3331]

What's this all about?

[@sanjaynalamaru]

In Business Schools, you get loads of case studies which you gotta read for class. Cold call is basically the act of the professor, at the beginning of a class, calling out one of the students at random to either give a brief or an opinion about the case. From there the case discussion starts. These I would believe are ex-HBS grads talking about their experience with Cold Calling.

[@bensonyohannan9213]

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[@jackmonk7827]

third world problems,

[@jean-michelbendaci2564]

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