Ahead of the Curve
Two Years at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton
Penguin, $25.95 in the US

What They Teach You at Harvard Business School
My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism
Viking, £12.99 in the UK

When Kim Clarke, then dean of Harvard Business School, greeted 900 new MBA students to the school in 2004, he warned them not to become cynical. The advice seems to have fallen on deaf ears with Philip Delves Broughton, journalist-turned-MBA.

Delves Broughton wrote an occasional “MBA diary” for the Financial Times while at HBS. Now, in this autobiographical portrait of two years spent in the “cauldron of capitalism” – his phrase – the former Daily Telegraph reporter writes with journalistic ease about everything from the nitty-gritty of the classroom experience to the problems of getting a job.