This book is about the life of a student in his first year at Stanford University. He is a poet, a writer and someone
who wrote speeches for the Former President Regan.
It talks about how difficult and easy is life in MBA in USA and a lot of stuff. It''s a good read for anyone who is looking at USA as a study destination or who simply wants to have a good read with a number of interesting
anecdotes.
IF HARVARD Business School is the West Point of Capitalism, and Stanford is the Yale of the West, that makes Stanford Business School--what? Well, according to Peter Robinson, it''s Sheer Agony and the inscription over the portals should have read, "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here." For that''s how Mr. Robinson sees himself in Palo Alto, as a poet in Hell.
Poets, in B-school lingo, are the few members of the first-year class who come, mathematically speaking, from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are career-shifting English majors or track-jumping corporate types or, in Mr. Robinson''s case, speechwriters leaving the Reagan White House. At Stanford, they are up against the consultants and investment bankers who are already comfortable with spread sheets, discounted cash flows, and other quantifiable esoterica. The competition between the two cultures is dreadfully unfair and Mr. Robinson records it here at painful length.
The purpose of this volume, as Mr. Robinson says, is to answer the question: "What is business school like?" And he does. More so than most of the books in this genre--one thinks, among others, of One L.--Snapshots takes a curious, comprehensive walk through the academic year, pausing to collect perspectives from odd angles. And given the author''s tour as a phrase-maker for the Great Communicator, it''s not surprising to find the tale told in crisp, post-collegiate prose.
And what is B School like?
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