Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

Broughton, Philip Delves

ISBN 10: 140010713X ISBN 13: 9781400107131

Publisher: Tantor Media Inc, 2008

Ahead of the Curve 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. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD. Full description

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Product Description

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. Simultaneous.

Review

a Destined to become required reading for prospective B-school entrants. . . . As an insideras account of an influential institution, [it] hits every mark.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"
aAn insightful and entertaining, behind-the-scenes glimpse at a powerful institution.a
a"BusinessWeek"
a What makes this a particularly absorbing and entertaining read is the combination of journalistic detachment and the sense of personal alienation that Delves Broughton, a Brit in an American system, feels as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to be a Harvard MBA.a
a"Financial Times"

" Destined to become required reading for prospective B-school entrants. . . . As an insider's account of an influential institution, [it] hits every mark."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"An insightful and entertaining, behind-the-scenes glimpse at a powerful institution."
-BusinessWeek
" What makes this a particularly absorbing and entertaining read is the combination of journalistic detachment and the sense of personal alienation that Delves Broughton, a Brit in an American system, feels as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to be a Harvard MBA."
-Financial Times