To the Harbus Editor: As a first-time reader of HARBUS and a non-HBS student, I was both positively and negatively surprised by the September 8, 2008 issue which gave overwhelming coverage to the book “Ahead of the Curve.” An entrepreneur (or journalist) could not ask for a better endorsement than to see their published work… Continue reading Letter to the Editor
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Two Years at Harvard Business School
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at the Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton was published just a few weeks ago and already it is difficult to find students on campus who have not heard of it. Indeed the book has raced through the entire business world – in August it was the #1… Continue reading Two Years at Harvard Business School
HBS Administration Responds
To the MBA Classes of 2009 and 2010: I am grateful to Joey Castillo and the other Harbus editors for allowing me to share my thoughts about Ahead of the Curve, a new book by HBS alumnus Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006), which I have read carefully. The book – written as a memoir, and… Continue reading HBS Administration Responds
An Investigatory Report: Ahead of the Curve-An Alumni’s Perspective
I want to start by saying that I really, really expected to enjoy this book. Written by a fellow Englishman from a relatively respectable newspaper, taking a wry look at his time at the West Point of Capitalism, highlighting a few of the hypocrisies and pretensions of MBA students and maybe even taking a few… Continue reading An Investigatory Report: Ahead of the Curve-An Alumni’s Perspective
