Year One: An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School, Source of the Most Coveted Advanced Degree in the World

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Enter the high-powered, high-pressure, high-caffeine world of the most prestigious MBA program in the country in this real-life account of a typical student’s first year at Harvard Business School.
Robert Reid had spent two years working for a major consulting firm before enrolling at Harvard. Once there, what he found was once a combination of country club-like settings and now and again draconian academic traditions that combined to make Harvard’s MBA probably the most sought-after and potentially lucrative advanced degrees on this planet.
From the grueling application process and the anxiety surrounding classroom seating assignments, to the fierce jockeying for professors’ attention and the extraordinary courtship rituals leading businesses use to lure Harvard enrollees, Reid chronicles the heady and exhausting experiences that every HBS student faces. At the side of his own story, Reid follows other students, showing us what HBS offers to its more and more diverse student body: women, foreign students, the star performers, and the strugglers.
The threat of being challenged into class discussions by professors, the demanding daily preparation of case studies, and the occasional sharklike behavior of fellow students alternate with the pampering of a spalike athletic facility, meetings with legendary business world figures, and expensive nights on the town with corporate recruiters. HBS’s highly paid and influential faculty appear in all their glory and humanity, surrounded by awed students and occasional controversy about their teaching styles and business theories – in addition to their grading policies and uncompromising rules about class attendance.
For anyone interested or involved on this planet of business, Year One will give you an inside look at the breeding grounds where many of The usa’s most powerful and influential business figures get their real start.

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