Movies that each and every MBA Should Watch

Summer reading lists are popular amongst MBAs. But books aren’t the medium that is only learn a thing or two about business. A digital entrepreneur and founder of

, listed his top movies that teach valuable business lessons—a list that he calls “The Hollywood MBA.”

THE BIG SHORT (2015)

The Big Short is a biographical film based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, which details how the 2008 U.S. recession was largely triggered by the housing bubble in a recent post for

, Vikas Jha. The Movie, Jha says, is just a must-watch for entrepreneurs and provides lessons on risk-management when you look at the stock market.

“The movie really brings into focus the harm that you can do when leverage is held by large institutions that are financial the derivatives and CDOs market,” Jha says. “Investors need to pay attention to risk management themselves.”

STARTUP.COM (2001)

A documentary film Startup.com if they want to protect follows your way of the dot-com startup, govWorks Inc., which raised $60 million in funding—but ultimately failed.

“This a person is worth seeing, particularly when you’re a techie, or someone who’s interested in understanding the bubble that is internet” Jha says. The effect is showed by“This movie money, greed and power may have on relationships. Friends are not necessarily the business partners that are best.”Business InsiderTHE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010)P&Q

Source link The Social Network tells the founding story of Facebook—portraying a Mark that is college-aged Zuckerberg gets sued by twins who claim he stole their idea. The takeaway through the myspace and facebook, Jha says, is it to life.(*)“Facebook that it doesn’t matter who comes up with an idea, but rather who brings happened because Mark Zuckerberg had the will, the confidence, the vision, and the discipline to make it happen,” Jha says. “it a reality. while it is known that no original idea exists, the real job is to get busy making”
(*)THE HOLLYWOOD MBA: TOP 18 MOVIES(*)

The Major Short (2015)
com (2001)
The Social Networking (2010)
Jobs (2013)
Becoming Warren Buffett (2017)
Joy (2015)
Wall Street (1987)
Moneyball (2011)
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
Work Place (1999)
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the(2009 year)
Catch Me if you’re able to (2002)
The Quest For Happyness (2006)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Nightcrawler (2014)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

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