<![CDATA[Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School]]>

false <![CDATA[Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School]]> 3308712 2 As One L did for Harvard Law School, Ahead of the Curve does for Harvard Business School—providing an incisive student’s-eye view that pulls the veil away from this vaunted institution and probes the methods it uses to make its students into the elite of the business world In the century since its founding, Harvard Business School has become the single most influential institution in global business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviest entrepreneurs (e.g., Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons (e.g., Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokerage houses routinely send their brightest young stars to HBS to groom them for future power. To these people and many others, a Harvard MBA is a golden ticket to the Olympian heights of American business. In 2004, Philip Delves Broughton abandoned a post as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph to join nine hundred other would-be tycoons on HBS’s plush campus. Over the next two years, he and his classmates would be inundated with the best—and the rest—of American business culture that HBS epitomizes. The core of the school’s curriculum is the “case”—an analysis of a real business situation from which the students must, with a professor’s guidance, tease lessons. Delves Broughton studied more than five hundred cases and recounts the most revelatory ones here. He also learns the surprising pleasures of accounting, the allure of “beta,” the ingenious chicanery of leveraging, and innumerable other hidden workings of the business world, all of which he limns with a wry clarity reminiscent of Liar’s Poker. He also exposes the less savory trappings of b-school culture, from the “booze luge” to the pandemic obsession with PowerPoint to the specter of depression that stalks too many overburdened students. With acute and often uproarious candor, he assesses the school’s success at teaching the traits it extols as most important in business—leadership, decisiveness, ethical behavior, work/life balance. Published during the one hundredth anniversary of Harvard Business School, Ahead of the Curve offers a richly detailed and revealing you-are-there account of the institution that has, for good or ill, made American business what it is today. 3345923 31 7 2008 Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School total:166|5:18|4:73|3:60|2:13|1:2| 166 590 288 57 3 4 false false Mon Aug 18 08:45:14 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 08:46:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 21:12:17 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 21:23:07 -0700 2009
Impressive read by an interesting guy who was born in Bangladesh and grew up in England.

After working as a journalist for many papers and in many cities the author decided he wanted to expand his opportunities and got into HBS. He effectively brings the reader...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 18:25:34 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 15:58:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 19:47:27 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 14:15:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 10:06:53 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 17:32:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 21:01:02 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 18:47:51 -0800 2009
There are a lot of things I take for granted about any educational institution in America, like getting-to-know-each-other g...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 12:24:02 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 09:28:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 09:57:56 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 19:36:49 -0700 2009
Hank Paulson:

“Professional happiness would come from being very good at something difficult.”

“The victors are those who made change their friend. (1) Resist the temptation to be a short-termist; (2) Be hon...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 04:07:54 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 04:08:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 13:02:20 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 10:13:16 -0700 2008 As a person considering business school, this was an obvious read for me. A timely insider account is worth quite a lot -- and given the current economic crisis, people definitely want to examine the worth of a Harvard MBA and its role on Wall Street.

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However, his last...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Aug 28 12:25:17 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 12:29:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 05:47:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 05:50:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3308712