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"Published during the 100th 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."
"Published during the 100th 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."@en
"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 900 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, which 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. Broughton studied over 500 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 business school culture, from the "booze luge" to the pandemic obsession with PowerPoint to the specter of depression, which 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, and work/life balance. -- Description from from http://www.learnoutloud.com (Oct. 7, 2011)."@en
"An assessment of the teaching methods used by Harvard Business School 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."@en
"Two years in the cauldron of capitalism-"horrifying and very funny" (The Wall Street Journal) 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. 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. Published during the one hundredth anniversary of Harvard Business School, this is the unflinching truth about life in the trenches of an iconic American institution."@en

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"Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School"@en
"Ahead of the curve two years at harvard business school"@en
"Ahead of the curve two years at Harvard Business School"@en
"Ahead of the curve : two years at Harvard Business School"
"Ahead of the curve : two years at Harvard Business School"@en

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