tbgstore.com is an Amazon storefront that Make Simple Online Shopping! Compare Products, Prices and Store in Just Second, Feel Free To Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School  enlarge Author: Philip Delves Broughton Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Category: Book List Price: $25.95 Buy New: $4.00 as of 2/9/2010 05:32 MST details You Save: $21.95 (85%) Qty 1 In Stock New (46) Used (36) from $2.46 Seller: Maureen stewart Rating: 61 reviews Sales Rank: 216153 Media: Hardcover Pages: 304 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2 Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 ISBN: 1594201757 Dewey Decimal Number: 650.07117444 EAN: 9781594201752 ASIN: 1594201757 Publication Date: July 31, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Tell A Friend Add to Wishlist Add to Wedding Registry Add to Baby Registry Features:   •  ISBN13: 9781594201752   •  Condition: NEW   •  Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. 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Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviest entrepreneurs (e.g., Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons (e.g., Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokerage houses routinely send their brightest young stars to HBS to groom them for future power. To these people and many others, a Harvard MBA is a golden ticket to the Olympian heights of American business. In 2004, Philip Delves Broughton abandoned a post as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph to join nine hundred other would-be tycoons on HBS’s plush campus. Over the next two years, he and his classmates would be inundated with the best—and the rest—of American business culture that HBS epitomizes. The core of the school’s curriculum is the “case”—an analysis of a real business situation from which the students must, with a professor’s guidance, tease lessons. Delves Broughton studied more than five hundred cases and recounts the most revelatory ones here. He also learns the surprising pleasures of accounting, the allure of “beta,” the ingenious chicanery of leveraging, and innumerable other hidden workings of the business world, all of which he limns with a wry clarity reminiscent of Liar’s Poker. He also exposes the less savory trappings of b-school culture, from the “booze luge” to the pandemic obsession with PowerPoint to the specter of depression that stalks too many overburdened students. With acute and often uproarious candor, he assesses the school’s success at teaching the traits it extols as most important in business—leadership, decisiveness, ethical behavior, work/life balance. Published during the one hundredth anniversary of Harvard Business School, Ahead of the Curve offers a richly detailed and revealing you-are-there account of the institution that has, for good or ill, made American business what it is today. Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 61 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...13Next » Tedious Reading   February 6, 2010 Frank J. DeFelice (San Jose, CA) I received my MBA a few years ago, in a school across the river from Harvard Business School. We used the case method also, and I have to say, our program was more difficult than HBS. Why? Some of our instructors spoke such poor English that they were almost unintelligible. People at HBS have great instructors. Now about the book. Reading about what the courses were like, and how teams sat around discussing financial ratios, and balance sheets was a bore. The author was overwhelmed by the curriculum, because he was a journalist, not an analytical type. People who did best in business school were finance majors and project managers. Not nurses, microbiologists, or English majors. HBS wanted a diverse mix of students. "Ahead of the Curve" could have been a course description in a catalog. I found Organizational Behavior myself to be a challenging course, Operations Management fun. Why HBS needed a math camp was a mystery to me. If applicants couldn't do simple algebra, they should not have been admitted. Ratio analysis is simple fractions. What I got from this book is, HBS is an elite school for the elite. It's expensive, and geared towards Wall Street and the old boy network. When I interviewed for engineering jobs I was told about HBS hot shots who tried and failed to be productive. There's a glut of MBA's. The HBS degree opens doors closed to ordinary people with MBA's. George W Bush received his MBA from Harvard. People at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have Harvard MBA's They were responsible for the financial meltdown recently. (In all fairness, people who wrote the software for the derivatives models were not MBA's.) An MBA doesn't mean much if you're an idiot. Rupert Murdoch dropped out of school at the age of 15. Bill Gates never got a degree. If you need a HBS degree to get ahead, maybe you should look at yourself more closely. Worth reading for the course descriptions   January 11, 2010 Michael J. Cussen (Oakland, CA) Wouldn't have read the book except that my two engineer sons are thinking about MBAs. I was always curious about what exactly they taught you at HBS and this book pretty much tells you that. And also how much the 2 years cost: $175,000. I got the impression at first that this was going to be a negative book but it didn't turn out that way. Nice anecdotes throughout the book which I enjoyed. I was disheartened to see how many grads went to Wall Street. I was hoping that all this effort was to make the American and world economies better with new ideas for tangible stuff instead of the financial product crap that we have now. So much for that. Go to HBS and learn how to play financial hot potato. Luckily we have a government that can print money and bail these creeps out. Saw one minor error which the fact checker should have got. Averell Harriman's father, E.H., was president of the Union Pacific Railroad, not the "..U.S. Pacific Railroad." And one an editor should have got, "principle/agent" should of course be "principal/agent." Again proving what my disgruntled writer friend told me 40 years ago, "Those that can't do, teach, and those who can't do or teach, edit." Hope that Mr. Broughton has found his post HBS niche and not one like Bob Dylan sang about: "20 years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift." Good book Great insights of HBS   January 3, 2010 adk This book give you an overview of the HBS curriculum. Of course, the experience of the author is subjective. Nevertheless, the author provides interesting details and gives the reader a good sense of life as an MBA student. In addition, he explains various business concepts e.g. how do venture capitalists earn $ etc. and also describes the interview processes of major companies such as Google and other consulting companies. It is definitely an interesting read. THE HARVARD MBA EXPOSED   November 25, 2009 James T. Meadows (Kansas City, Missouri) Broughton chronicles his recent two-year trek through the Harvard MBA program. The book provides several platforms of enjoyable exploration. 1). Personal introspection---Broughton does a nice job in describing his personal and family struggles with adjusting to life as an MBA student from his former post as a Paris-based journalist. He shares authentically, graphically, and often humorously about his trials and tribulations. This is affirming to anyone going through transition. 2). Harvard Business School---With the precision of the journalist that he is, Broughton dissects the ivory tower world of HBS. The reader gains many insights into the machinations of the school and its place in history. Politics, relationships, reputation, and perceptions are equally examined. These revelations alone are quite interesting. 3). The MBA degree---Broughton does an excellent job in assessing the history and standing of the MBA degree itself regardless of which school produced the graduate. He explains the details of an MBA education, the case-study method of learning, and how these components help mold the student's business mind. Just as important as the technical aspects, he emphasizes the effect an MBA education has on the student's thought processes and confidence. Broughton summarizes, "The words master's in business administration captured so little of what I had learned" (p. 277). 4). The proverbial ethical challenges---Broughton explores the persistent challenge of doing business ethically. Although he doesn't come out and say that ethical business is an oxymoron, he does emphasize the constant threat of ethical compromise both personally and professionally. Broughton muses, "If you are ready to give up your soul or, failing that, a child, the devil will give you anything" (p. 261). Ahead of the Curve was a fascinating read. I highly recommend the book to anyone at all interested in the world of the MBA or the world of HBS. Fun book to read if you are interested in B-school living   October 20, 2009 Pinar C. (PA, USA) It was an easy read, well written book. The writer, as an ex-journalist, makes the topic even more interesting. I liked remembering the B-school days and reviewing the classes they teach at Harvard Business School. Showing reviews 1-5 of 61 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...13Next » Qty 1 In Stock

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