Authors: Philip Delves Broughton
ISBN-13: 9781616882532, ISBN-10: 1616882530
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: July 2008
Edition: Bargain
Philip De lves Broughton served, successively, as the New York and Paris bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph of London before attending Harvard Business School, where he received his MBA in 2006.
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.
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