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Books : What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism
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What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism by: Philip Delves Broughton List Price: £12.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £8.09 You Save: £4.90 (38%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780670917761 ISBN: 0670917761 Label: Viking Manufacturer: Viking Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: August 07, 2008 Publisher: Viking Studio: Viking Sales Rank: 3766 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - What Mr Broughton should have thought about earlier?I believe that this is an interesting read for anybody who is considering an MBA at Harvard Business School and where Mr Broughton describes the teaching and details of the MBA the book is informative and useful. The main problem I had with the book is the complete lack of Mr Broughton's understanding of his own situation. If you are a journalist and work at the Paris office of a UK newspaper you are definitely on the right career track and the decision to try out something else might be understandable but if you choose Harvard Business School you must be very naive to wait for the professor or tutor to tell you that the most important thing in the world should be your family and a reasonable work-life balance. That is comparable ... Read More: Rating:  - A Journalist's Take on Harvard Business School's MBA ProgramPhilip Delves Broughton was on top of the journalism world as the Paris bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph of London when he got itchy feet and decided he wanted to go to business school. Setting his sights on Harvard, he was pleased to get in. I attended Harvard Business School while in law school many years ago. I was surprised to find out how many things are similar to when I attended. The student complaints were similar, too. I thought that Mr. Broughton did an excellent job of explaining what the case system is all about and what occurs in preparing for and during a class. If you've always wanted to go to HBS, here's a chance to take a peek. The book's strength is in exposing the values behind ... Read More: Rating: - A fly-on-the-wall view of American's most prestigious business schoolSpeaking as someone who is moving from academia to business, and from the UK to Boston, Philip Broughton's book about his experience as an English journalist also moving out to Boston for the MBA resonated very strongly with me. A cultural outsider by virtue of his background, culture, and has he suggests several times, his age (32 vs average of 27 at HBS), this book gives the kind of insight that a prospectus never could. Compressing two years of education into a paperback is quite a tall order, so Broughton gives a flavour of each of the modules he took there, from financial models to ethics and corporate strategy, as well as touching briefly upon the typical case studies he encountered there. Where this book was at its most interesting ... Read More: Rating:  - Doesn't know what it want's to be[This review is actually for the US version of the book Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School, but since this is the main UK version I thought I'd post here instead. Firstly, I'm a recent HBS graduate, and like Mr Delves-Broughton, I was also from the UK, though I had more of a traditional business background before attending. This book has been gaining quite a lot of interest from the HBS community with various debates as to how fair a representation it is. My major criticism is that the book really doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a description of the day-to-day experience of HBS?, Is it a commentary on American Capitalism and the HBS adminstration? Is it the author's own introspective look at his own ... Read More: Rating: - Takes you inside a top MBAHaving just finished an MBA myself from London Business School, I saw this book at Heathrow on my way out of the UK and bought it with curiosity. I wanted to see whether my experience at London Business School would have been significantly different from that at a top American school; Harvard, of course, as far as MBA brands go, being number one in my opinion regardless of what competitors or any rankings say. This book can be recommended to those interested in applying to Harvard or a comparable top MBA program to see if they have the right expectations of an MBA program; as well as to graduates of other programs to see how the experience at their schools compare against the holy grail of MBAs. It really goes inside what the MBA culture is about ... Read More: |
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