True or False: Mary Kay is Taught at Harvard
Written by L J on April 24, 2008 – 3:16 pm -They claim that Mary Kay’s business plan is taught at Harvard business school.
Well, don’t tell Harvard Business School. They are sick of MLM consultants using this line because it isn’t true.
What IS true is that Harvard Business School is the world’s leading supplier of business “cases”. These cases provide background information about a company and examine critical junctures in their development.
Case studies are not opinions of the company or situation.
And Case Studies ARE NOT endorsements of the business or the business model, nor do they “teach” that business. (I’m not really sure what anyone who says that Mary Kay is “taught” means by that anyway.)
The case method is a process of teaching students by using detailed accounts of real-world business situations and has been used with great effectiveness by Harvard Business School since it was developed by its faculty in the 1920s. You can read about the case method on the HBS website.
A quick search on the Harvard Business School website found seven case studies involving Mary Kaydating from 1981 to 2004. AmoYou can find them on the Harvard Business School website. You can view these and order copies by following this link.
If anyone tells you that Mary Kay is taught at Harvard Business School they are either
1. Simply repeating what they’ve been told by an uninformed director;
2. Lying in an attempt to give validation to the Mary Kay “business”; or
3. Are too dumb to make the distinction between studying a subject and endorsing it.
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June 20th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
all of your comments seem to be things that someone said wrong. i just started mary kay and i haven’t heard any of these things I know I won’t be making a 50% profit and nothing close to it especially in the beginning. I haven’t heard that i will win a car by selling, I know thats only by recruiting. And also I know that mary kay isn’t taught at harvard, if it was then i would be getting a free expensive education. Everyone on this site probably just wanted to get rich and didn’t realize all the time and money you would have to put into it. That’s why they say it’s your own business. If you were to start your own business no one would give you free inventory for your new store, and you wouldn’t just work for an hour to selling at your store you would need to take time to reorder your products and go to trainings to learn how to run your business. It really makes sense if you take it as an actual ‘business’ and not get- rich-quick
July 29th, 2008 at 1:11 am
But it’s not a business. If you actually owned a business, you could sell the business. It’s more of a franchise. You “own” the right to sell MK products to your clients, under their rules and direction.
My EESSD often quoted “MK is taught at Harvard” and I’ve seen it in several scripts. It’s not true. It may be used as an MLM example, but it’s not taught, and I find it to be extremely misleading,
Also, have you heard you can make executive income working part time?
The presentation of the “opportunity” is misleading. If one was to open a business, I agree they would need the training/experience to do so. How many were approached with the “opportunity” as “would you like to open a MK business?”