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Tyra Banks poses with the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show/Informative at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on August 30, 2009. UPI/ Phil McCarten 
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Published: March. 14, 2011 at 4:26 PM

BOSTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Former supermodel and talk-show host Tyra Banks says she started studying at Harvard Business School in Boston last year.

Asked how people react to her decision, Banks told CBS News: "I get mixed reactions. There are little facial expressions. ... The chin goes back, like, 'Really?'"

"I'm, like, 'Yeah, I'm going.' How do I react to that? I kind of take a pause and kind of analyze what this is. And a lot of it is just shock."

Banks, 37, said she enrolled in Harvard's Owner/President Management Program so she could learn the best strategies for handling her media company, Bankable Productions, and charitable work.

The business management program requires students spend three weeks on campus a year for three years, CBS News noted.

"In order for my company to grow and be the best, and to reach these women, and to serve them, I needed the best. So I went to the best," Banks said.

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