Book description
WITH NEW ANALYSIS OF HBS AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
When Philip Delves Broughton abandoned his career as a successful
journalist and enrolled in Harvard Business School's prestigious MBA
course, he joined 900 other would-be tycoons in a cauldron of
capitalism. Two years of Excel shortcuts and five hundred of HBS's
notorious business case studies lay ahead of him, but he couldn't have
told you what OCRA was, other than a vegetable, or whether discount
department stores make more money than airlines.
He did, however, know that HBS's alumni appeared to be taking over
the world. The US president, the president of the World Bank, the US
treasury secretary, the CEOs of General Electric, Goldman Sachs and
Proctor & Gamble - all were bringing HBS experience to the way
they ran their banks, businesses and even countries. And with the
prospect of economic enlightenment before him, he decided to see for
himself exactly what they teach you at Harvard Business School.
Philip Delves Broughton's hilarious and enlightening account of his
experiences within Harvard Business School's hallowed walls provides
an extraordinary glimpse into a world of case study conundrums, guest
lectures, Apprentice-style tasks, booze luging, burn-outs and
high flyers. And with HBS alumni heading the very global governments,
financial institutions and FTSE 500 companies whose reckless love of
deregulation and debt got us into so much trouble, he discovers where
HBS really adds value - and where it falls disturbingly short.
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
and reported widely from North and South America, Europe and Africa. He
led the
Daily Telegraph
's coverage of the 9/11 attacks on New York and his work has also
appeared in the
Financial Times
,
The Wall Street Journal
,
The Times
and
Spectator
. In 2006, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He currently
lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
