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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: 5,000. 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
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