Ahead Of The Curve: Two Years At Harvard Business School

This book examines the author’s two-year experience as a student at the Harvard Business School. He is happy that he went to Harvard, but is critical of the experience. He says that HBS is about making money, not about changing the world. The two main foci of the curriculum were to make money and to give back. He wonders why his classmates pushed so hard to get jobs after they graduated where they knew they would be miserable. He wonders how he can succeed financially without losing his soul in the business world. In sum, he says that Harvard Business School should produce more problem-solvers and fewer wind bags.

Source: Ahead Of The Curve: Two Years At Harvard Business School. By Philip Delves Broughton, 2008, Penguin Press, ISBN: 978-1-59420-175-2.