--- title: Tyra Banks Will Teach at Stanford's Business School description: Supermodel Tyra Banks is taking her instructional tough talk from the runway to the classroom. canonical: https://time.com/4461514/tyra-banks-stanford-business-school/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-22T16:22:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:11.973Z og:title: Tyra Banks Is Going To Teach at Stanford Business School og:description: Just call her America's Next Top Professor og:url: https://time.com/4461514/tyra-banks-stanford-business-school/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt725129fc92c5ea21/6988a32f524fc09659df93c1/tyra-banks-stanford.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Tyra Banks Essence Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tyra Banks Is Going To Teach at Stanford Business School twitter:description: Just call her America's Next Top Professor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt725129fc92c5ea21/6988a32f524fc09659df93c1/tyra-banks-stanford.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tyra Banks Is Going To Teach at Stanford Business School > Sponsored content. 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Morial Convention Center on July 2, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tyra Banks speaks onstage during the 2016 ESSENCE Festival presented By Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 2, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Paras Griffin/Getty Images by [Claire Zillman/Fortune](https://time.com/author/fortune/) ## Claire Zillman/Fortune Fortune Aug 22, 2016 4:22 PM UTC Supermodel Tyra Banks, known for her ruthless critiques on reality show _America’s Next Top Model_, is taking her instructional tough talk from the runway to the classroom. In May, the former Victoria’s Secret model [will co-teach a course on creating and maintaining a personal brand at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business](http://www.wsj.com/articles/tyra-banks-to-teach-stanford-m-b-a-class-1471798434). She’ll instruct some 25 MBA students on how to use social and traditional media to communicate their strengths and how to endure the ups and downs of being a business leader. Students of the class will ultimately share their “honed personal brand” through three platforms—Facebook Live, local television, and YouTube—in an effort to jump-start their personal brand extension, according to the course description for [Project You: Building and Extending Your Personal Brand](http://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?q=GSBGEN+585&academicYear=20162017). Her co-instructor will be management professor Allison Kluger, who previously worked as a producer for _The View_ and _Good Morning America_. **_Fortune:_**[_How Tyra Banks Is Helping Startups Get ‘Funded’_](http://fortune.com/2016/07/14/tyra-banks-new-reality-show/) Banks’ newest role extends her reach into the business world. Banks, who serves as chief executive of TYRA Beauty, [is reportedly set to serve as a mentor to entrepreneurs on a _Shark Tank_\-esque TV show called _Funded,_ ](http://fortune.com/2016/07/14/tyra-banks-new-reality-show/)and she’s [an investor in millennial career site The Muse](http://fortune.com/2015/05/13/tyra-banks-the-muse/). Site co-founder and CEO Kathryn Minshew told _Fortune_ last year that Banks is passionate about finding “growing businesses that were relevant to young people.” And before she was a business school instructor, Banks was herself a business school student. In 2011, she talked to _Fortune_‘s Pattie Sellers about enrolling in an executive education program at Harvard Business School. “My career and my business has gotten to where it is because of my gut,” she said at the time. “In order to take my business to next level, for it to scale… to leave a true legacy… I needed the book smarts, I needed the minds of those professors, I needed the education to get there. I do not think I could do it without the education.” **_Fortune_**_:_[ _Tyra Banks and Others Invest in Millennial Career Site The Muse_](http://fortune.com/2015/05/13/tyra-banks-the-muse/) Banks told _The Wall Street Journal_ that she plans to be as no-nonsense as a professor as she is as a TV host. “If I see somebody not paying attention, I’m gonna call on them,” she said. No word yet on whether Banks’ trademark [“smize”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZhRz6DZSrM) will be part of the curriculum. _This_ [_article_](http://fortune.com/2016/08/22/tyra-banks-stanford-business-school/) _originally appeared on_ [_Fortune_](http://fortune.com/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4461514/tyra-banks-stanford-business-school/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4461514/tyra-banks-stanford-business-school/"},"headline":"Tyra Banks Is Going To Teach at Stanford Business School","datePublished":"2016-08-22T16:22:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:11.973Z","description":"Just call her America's Next Top Professor","url":"https://time.com/4461514/tyra-banks-stanford-business-school/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt725129fc92c5ea21/6988a32f524fc09659df93c1/tyra-banks-stanford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Claire Zillman/Fortune"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt725129fc92c5ea21/6988a32f524fc09659df93c1/tyra-banks-stanford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tyra Banks Essence Festival","caption":"tyra banks essence festival america's next top model stanford","creditText":"Paras Griffin/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4461514/tyra-banks-stanford-business-school/","name":"Tyra Banks Is Going To Teach at Stanford Business School"}}]}] ```