# Professors Lisa Leslie and Nathan Pettit are quoted about their favorite movies for MBAs

1 Faculty News April 21, 2017 ![Poets and Quants logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036687.gif?itok=YuUEYfSP)>

Excerpt from [Poets & Quants](http://poetsandquants.com/2017/04/21/business-profs-name-favorite-movies-mbas/) -- "'Because movies are typically made for mass consumption, the portrayal of business professionals in them reflects how MBAs are seen by some non-trivial percentage of the general public at that time. \[[Pettit](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nathan-pettit)\] ‘\[Twelve Angry Men is\] not about business explicitly, but it’s a great example of how to persuade others effectively, which is a critical skill in business. Like many other b-school professors I use it to teach persuasion in my leadership class.' \[[Leslie](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lisa-leslie)\]”

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