Review: What They Teach You at Harvard Business School

Philip Delves Broughton, Penguin 2010

Taking us inside the illustrious “cauldron of capitalism”, Philip Delves Broughton’s memoir of his experience taking the two-year MBA at Harvard Business School, delivers…

When you realise you’re being subjected to Dr Robert Cialdini’s Six Principles of Persuasion

I recently attended an online seminar on social media selling techniques, given by an online marketing guru who shall remain nameless. The penultimate 20 minutes of the, at…

Lush Cosmetics and the Business of Reading

It’s hard to avoid noticing the increasing number of Lush outlets, with their kaleidoscopes of bath bombs and voluptuous scents wafting onto high streets and station concourses. Lush is certainly beautiful and smells lovely, but scratch the surface and…

The Perfect Lecturer

We searched literature for a description of the perfect lecture, or lecturer, and we found it in Mihail Sebastian’s 1934 masterpiece, For Two Thousand Years. This passage is from the Penguin Modern Classics’ translation by Philip O Ceallaigh. The protagonist, a Jewish student, describes the…

What do they read at the world’s top business schools?

What would you be given to read if you enrolled onto an ExecEd programme at a top business school? There is an essential bookshelf, and here are four of the best titles.

The Personal Student Bursary — and how you can become a micro-philanthropist

In the past year, Blackwell’s has helped not one, but two charitable organisations enable fantastic new initiatives to provide small scholarships for students to cover the cost of their textbooks…

The Pages are for Turning

Four of the best autobiographies of contemporary British politics