Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
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Candid glimpse into Harvard Business School life.
If you're pondering the mysteries and mayhaps of MBA life, especially at a venerable institution like Harvard, "Ahead of the Curve" should be your clandestine companion. Philip Delves Broughton doesn't just throw you a lifeline; he reels you into a world where academia and revelry collide. It's as educational as it is unexpectedly entertaining – a kind of travel guide for the aspirational and the curious.
- Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2008)
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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
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ISBN: 9780143115434
Authors:
Philip Delves Broughton
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 2009-06-30
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 4597 readers)
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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.
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Candid glimpse into Harvard Business School life.
If you're pondering the mysteries and mayhaps of MBA life, especially at a venerable institution like Harvard, "Ahead of the Curve" should be your clandestine companion. Philip Delves Broughton doesn't just throw you a lifeline; he reels you into a world where academia and revelry collide. It's as educational as it is unexpectedly entertaining – a kind of travel guide for the aspirational and the curious.
- Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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