What They Teach You at Harvard Business School

“I’ve done some ratios,”

J. P. Morgan, after all, had never had Excel and he used to run most of the U.S. economy.

The only thing that matters is how you think about the problems, how you deal with the paucity of information, the uncertainty.

The entire HBS curriculum is made of case studies, business situations drawn from real life. The question you are expected to answer in each one is: What would you do?

RC, the required curriculum.

Well. How many billions should one man have?

Will I be the one they mention in twenty-five years?

embarrassments and humiliations

the MBA, its content, and the network of people who hold it, matter

HBS alumni filled 20 percent of the top three jobs at the Fortune 500 companies.