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by Philip Delves Broughton
Amazon Price: $17.13
Customer Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading Ahead of the Curve by Philip Delves Broughton. He offered enormous insight into the day-to-day struggles of business school, while at the same time bringing to light important ideas (my interpretation! I could be reading into the author's points a bit much!! please beware):
1. The business school degree at a place like HBS is much like a sword...if you know how to use it, it can be very effective...ie. if you already worked at a place like McKinsey or Goldman, then you will get a top level job easily...if you come from an unconventional background you are screwed unless you come up with a brilliant idea for an entrepreneurial project or you are a math genius and business math challenges are a joke to you or of course the economy is growing like wildfire and firms hire like crazy...this is something different from what top business schools sell
2. A lot of "PhD" professors are so full of hot air. Has Porter actually run a business other than his own lucrative consulting based on his reputation as a guru..i want to see him manage a real company...in fact, most hbs profs have not even gone to business school or managed real companies (MBA programs are run by PhDs!! this is a sad fact)...
3. The case method has many positive features but it can also be gamed. You can focus on a few points that will get brownie points without even knowing all the important aspects of a case. The classes can be full of hot air as students are desperate to get air time. And the case method is not useful for many subject areas such as finance or accounting where you get people who are CPAs crammed in with people who never took a formal accounting course in their lives.
4. You learn a great deal about the take-away ideas of major business school subject areas.
5. The heroes change overnight after they become convicted felons such as the ENRON HBS team!
I really didnt think this was just a sour-grapes book. THe author was very respectful of the institution. In fact, people who graduate from top schools have it in their interest to promote the magic of the MBA degree from these schools and promote an image that the MBA at a place like HBS will transform you into a business mogul. It is nice to see another point of view.
One last thing: I went to Harvard as an undergrad (many friends in the b-school where I used to study) and the b-school at least makes an excellen...
by J.D., Richard Montauk
Amazon Price: $19.80
Customer Review: This book gave a lot of details on how to organize your application. Very useful with great recommendations.
by Stewart D. Friedman
Amazon Price: $17.13
Customer Review: I have read this book as one of my elective courses at Wharton West. Prof. Friedman discussed in his book about how acting with authenticity (being real), integrity (being whole), and creativity (being innovative) affects performance. By acting with authenticity, I feel much more purposeful at work and home. I am more committed and drive persistently in myself and people around me, which help to improve the performance for myself as well as people around me. The leadership skills I have learned from this book:
Align actions with core values by choosing what matters most: I become more result oriented and focus on those important tasks that matter most to my core values.
Cultivate awareness of true leadership priorities in all domains: I have shared the new concept of leadership in this class with my boss, my colleagues, my husband, my son and friends and I do see the action from all domains.
Ethically influence others to generate support in all domains: The efforts I have put in the experiments have generated positive results both at work and home.
I hope this review help you to choose this book and act with urgency to lead a richer life with four ways win at work, family, community and personal level.
Amazon Price: $8.00
by Robert Peters
Amazon Price: $10.88
Customer Review: In the humanities, completing a PhD can take as long as 10 years. Reducing that time as much as possible is crucial for a graduate student. This book addresses many of the practical issues related to completing your graduate degree, from applying to grad schools to choosing a dissertation topic to find a job afterward. While different disciplines vary greatly in their requirements and expectations, this guide will be very useful to anyone considering graduate school or currently enrolled.
by Randy Komisar
Amazon Price: $12.89
Customer Review: You can't be happy in life, being an entrepreneur, unless you find a way to find meaning into you business. Venture Capital, post "the bust", is very hard to come by; finding meaning in your business will be a key component in providing you with the drive necessary to overcome the many obstacles inherent with owning your own business. VC's know this and want to see it when your giving your spiel before they fork over the cash. There you go; save your money. Define it and use it as your central drive in life and business. I was a little duped into buying the book. Babson College requires it for one of their entrepreneurship classes. What's with professors making you buy books that tell you what they (the professors) can tell you in just one paragraph?
by Omari Bouknight, Scott Shrum
Amazon Price: $12.23
Customer Review: Your MBA Game Plan is an insightful book that provides you with first hand knowledge of how to gain admission to the top business schools. It allows full access to the questions that admissions counselors want to know. Also, it informs you on how to improve parts of your resume that may be lacking. The most helpful section of the book provides sample essays that have been submitted to top B-Schools such as Northwesterns' Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the Ross Business School at Michigan University. The essays have been critiqued by the MBA Game Plan authors and provide great insight on how to woo admission counselors. This book is a must have for those planning for graduate school.
by Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Amazon Price: $13.59
Customer Review: As a mother of a HS junior who attends a local school in France, I have to take a more active role with the US college search since his school has no guidance counselor and there are no college road shows in the vicinity. I find myself reliant on word of mouth and written sources : guidebooks, blogs ,, newspaper articles, books /websites & advice and have invested the better part of son's junior year compiling information for the college search.
I ordered this book after reading a reference on a college admissions blog. I finished it during a train ride - and found it so riveting that I missed my stop.
Based on the title, I had expected to find just tips for affording college education but was pleasantly surprised by the author's insistence on quality -how to get your money's worth. So often the writers authoring these books report from the hallowed halls of academia. This author is a parent - and bases her experience as a mother of a college freshman while wearing her financial reporter thinking cap. How many college admission books are written from this point of view?
One innovation is that the book reverses the criteria for the college search by starting with match schools , not reach, where the student has more chance of obtaining scholarship money. The bottom up approach also instructs on how to find the best fit academically with several chapters on grading academic departments and discussions on professor ratings. Not stopping with the college admissions process, she addresses another under looked category - undergraduate research. And thanks to the author's chapter on freebies & best buys, I have added another school to the list.
The book closes with a list of informational websites, helpful cheat sheets and timelines in the appendix.
The author has packed an enormous amount of information here but has addressed the most salient points in a practical college admissions and quality education search. I could have saved a considerable amount of time and money had I read this book first and feel more empowered now for the final year of the search.
by Murray Shukyn, Dale Shuttleworth, Shukyn Murray , Ph.D., Dale Shuttleworth
Amazon Price: $11.55
Customer Review: The shipping was very slow and when I finally got the book, it had a price tag still on it that read $6!!
by Eric Butterworth
Amazon Price: $10.20
Customer Review: The book is spiritual yes, however religious NO. There is not one religion or doctrine centered in this writing. In fact, it is about your becoming and remaining connected with GOD. How we work with the power within not without (ie religions) is what makes the difference. The author centers on the life of the Christ not from a religious stand point but as a demonstration of what man is capable of. GOD didn't create Christianity, Buddhism, Judiasm, Islam, Taoism, or any other religion...man did.
I encourage persons reading these critiques to look at what others have written. Our lives are what we make it. Connecting with GOD as our source changes us from being a victim to an individual that has found and helps to create "Peace on Earth".
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