Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School » (Unabridged)

Philip Delves Broughton was born in Bangladesh and grew up in England. From 1998 to 2004, he served successively as the New York and Paris bureau chief for the "Daily Telegraph" of London and reported widely from North and South America, Europe, and Africa. He led the "Telegraph"as coverage of the 9/11 attacks on New York and his reporting has twice been nominated for the British Press Award. His work has also appeared in the "Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London," and "Spectator," In 2006, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Simon Vance is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An Audie(R) Award-winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by "Booklist" magazine.

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.

The Washington Post - Bryan Burrough

Ahead of the Curve offers a good sense of Harvard Business School's day-to-day workings, everything from what the other students are like to the merits of each lecturer to impressions of business titans such as Warren Buffett and Stephen Schwarzman, who revolve through the doors offering pointers on how to get filthy rich. Broughton makes a delightfully clueless guide.

Ch. 1 Let's Get Retarded 5

Ch. 2 Starting Over 31

Ch. 3 A Place Apart 46

Ch. 4 Riding the Booze Luge 52

Ch. 5 Who Am I? 69

Ch. 6 Formin', Stormin', Normin', Performin' 80

Ch. 7 To Beta and Beyond 93

Ch. 8 The Risk Master 119

Ch. 9 Insecure Overachievers 130

Ch. 10 Ethical Jihadists 147

Ch. 11 Extreme Leverage 167

Ch. 12 Chasing the Curve 191

Ch. 13 Big Hairy Goals 210

Ch. 14 "Watching My Children Grow Longer" 227

Ch. 15 Graduation 251

Ch. 16 A Factory for Unhappy People 266