TBS Inspiring Guest
Welcome to the site of our award-winning “Inspiring Guest” program, built around close collaborations with inspiring and accomplished individuals from outside business academia.
Discover our free resources – engaging educational videos accompanied by instructor materials, behind-the-scenes footage, articles about our work, and more. We welcome feedback, suggestions and ideas for future collaboration at inspiring.guest@tbs-education.fr.
Prizes and recognition
- AMBA-BGA Best Innovation Strategy Award
- Reimagine Education Award – Management Education Silver
- Academy of Management Teaching and Learning Conference Best Session award
- Jury prize (Aunege-FNEGE digital pedagogy awards)
- Financial Management Association Innovation in Teaching Award
Articles and conferences
- What Educators Can Learn from Comedians (published in Harvard Inspiring Minds)
- Using Comedy to Teach Serious Business (published in AACSB Insights blog)
- “Making humorous educational videos through an educator-comedian collaboration” (published in QS-Wharton’s Reimagine Education blog)
- “Journey to Inspiration” (published in AMBA’s Ambition Magazine)
- “Injecting humor into educational videos: How a business school collaborated with a standup comedian” (published in “The 6th e-Learning Excellence Awards: An Anthology of Case Histories”)
- Presentation about Inspiring Guest 1 at the 2021 Academy of Management Teaching and Learning Conference
Introducing Inspiring Guest 1
Introducing Inspiring Guest 2
Investing and market efficiency
This video seeks to address, in under four minutes and in a light-hearted manner, an important and profound idea in finance: the theoretical notion of market efficiency and its practical implications. We believe that this question is of interest not only to business school students but also to a wide investing public, and have therefore strived to make it appealing and accessible to both target audiences.
Music by Sean Ramon Calvo
Alternative versions:
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
The four types of companies
Comedians Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) and Chai Sharma use humor to
explain the main types of organizational forms for U.S. companies. The subject of this video corresponds to Section 1.1 of “Corporate Finance” (4th edition) by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
The balance sheet
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) uses humor to introduce the concept of the balance sheet.
The subject of this video corresponds to Section 2.2 of “Corporate Finance” (4th edition) by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
The time value of money
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) and uses humor to explain the concept of the Time Value of Money.
The topic of this video corresponds to Section 4.2 of “Corporate Finance” (4th edition) by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Loan amortization
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Education explains how loans are “amortized”, in other words, repaid. Understanding how loan amortization works is important not only to students of finance, but also to anyone who has borrowed money or plans to do so, whether for buying a house or a car, financing an education, or any other purpose.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Net Present Value
Comedians Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) and Chai Sharma use humor to explain a central concept in finance – the Net Present Value, or NPV. The subject of this video corresponds to Section 3.3 of “Corporate Finance” (4th edition) by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Short selling
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Education discusses short selling. The emphasis is on the logic behind selling a stock short, as well as the mechanics of the short sale and its mathematical interpretation.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Common measures of risk and return
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) uses humor to explain common measures of investment risk and return – the expected return, the variance, and the standard deviation. The subject of this video corresponds to Section 10.2 of “Corporate Finance” (4th edition) by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo.
Credit where credit’s due – Letter of credits
Actor and screenwriter David J. Keogh in collaboration with TBS Education explains Letters of credit (L/C). This video uses humour to get the key messages across and gives the students some tips to help them remember the key points about L/C.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Incoterms
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Education explains International Commercial Terms. Incoterms®, published by International Chamber of Commerce, is a way for traders to decide who pays for what when transferring goods across borders in a way that is legally clear and agreed internationally, and governs trillions of dollars in trade every year.
The iPhone 11 and the dark art of psychological pricin9
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Education discusses the psychology behind the pricing of the iPhone 11. The topics include the iPhone X, the iPhone XR, psychological pricing, marketing and consumer behavior.
Zoom shake the room – Lessons in Creative Problem Solving, Leadership & Team-Working
The case consists of a humorous 20 minutes video of a corporate, cross-functional team that is urgently preparing in a Zoom meeting, with minutes to go before a live-streamed, important public relations announcement.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Expectancy Theory of Motivation
This video seeks to explain, in under three minutes and in a light-hearted manner, an important concept in organizational behavior: Victor Vroom’s (1964) expectancy theory of motivation.
Alternative version:
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
What is Bayes’ Theorem
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Education explains how to use Bayes’ Theorem using an example that may keep you from sleeping at night… you’ve been warned.
Alternative version :
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Introduction to using the normal distribution
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Education introduces the viewer to how to use the normal distribution. The focus is on applying the 68 – 95 – 99.7 percent rule in order to obtain probabilities of events whose boundaries are 0, 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations away from the mean.
If you are a professor and you would like to receive the teaching note for discussing the video in class and/or grading assignments based on this video, please click
Using normal distribution tables
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Education explains how to use normal distribution tables in order to calculate the probability of any normally distributed event. This video is the sequel to “Introduction to using the normal distribution”.
Online course: How to make your lessons as engaging as Netflix series
An exclusive FREE online course on applying TV series writing techniques to make your teaching more engaging.
Coming soon – Request to receive information when the course is launched
Awards
First place winner, Innovation in Teaching Award
Accredited by the Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE).