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Jun 30, 2009 · In this candid and entertaining insider's look at the most influential school in global business, Philip Delves Broughton draws on his crack reporting skills to describe his madcap years at Harvard Business School.
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- Philip Delves Broughton
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- Penguin Books
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School (in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the book is called "What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years in the Cauldron of Capitalism") is a non-fiction book by author and journalist Philip Delves Broughton. [1]
- Philip Delves Broughton
- 2008
Jun 30, 2009 · Ahead of the Curve recounts the most edifying and surprising lessons learned in the quest for an MBA, from the ingenious chicanery of leveraging and the unlikely pleasures of accounting, to the antics of the "booze luge" and other, less savory trappings of student culture.
Jan 1, 2005 · An assessment of the teaching methods used by Harvard Business School to promote students into the elite ranks of the business world reveals how the university's curriculum focuses on analyses of actual business scenarios that teach sophisticated strategies in such areas as accounting, beta, and leveraging. 50,000 first printing.
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- Philip Delves Broughton
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...
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...
Jul 31, 2008 · Simultaneously repelled by his aggressive fellow capitalists in training—their stress-fueled partying and obsession with wealth—and dazzled by his classes, visiting professors and the surprising beauty of business concepts, Broughton vacillates between cautious critique and faint praise.
