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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
by Philip Delves Broughton (Goodreads Author)
by Philip Delves Broughton (Goodreads Author)
(3.5) What it's like inside Harvard Business School (for someone who's not well prepared)
Just prior, I read The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT, which is a similar project (though Idea Factory is MechE masters student experience at MIT, this one's MBA student experience at Harvard). I think I liked the MIT one better, but both were good about sharing actual problems, interview questions, case studies, so it felt more concrete.
The first half of this one is pretty good, the narrative moves forward, we're learning a lot. Then he kind of just goes adrift once he starts interviewing for (and failing to secure) a job. He dwells a lot on the fact that everyone at HBS is trying to get rich, and some are just more honest about that than others.
Makes me confident in my decision not to go to business school though. Maybe it'll have the same effect on you.
Just prior, I read The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT, which is a similar project (though Idea Factory is MechE masters student experience at MIT, this one's MBA student experience at Harvard). I think I liked the MIT one better, but both were good about sharing actual problems, interview questions, case studies, so it felt more concrete.
The first half of this one is pretty good, the narrative moves forward, we're learning a lot. Then he kind of just goes adrift once he starts interviewing for (and failing to secure) a job. He dwells a lot on the fact that everyone at HBS is trying to get rich, and some are just more honest about that than others.
Makes me confident in my decision not to go to business school though. Maybe it'll have the same effect on you.
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