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A journalist goes business class
Telegraph bureau chief Philip Delves Broughton swapped scribbling for a stint at Harvard Business School. Toby Young on Wall Street, you might say:
Broughton makes a delightfully clueless guide. His math skills are crude, and he can't operate Microsoft Excel... In fact, from the outset, he is entirely ambivalent about entering Corporate America. He doesn't really want to work that hard, he admits. He wants to spend time with his family...He is especially good at conjuring up the intangible benefits of a Harvard MBA: the network of Fortune 500 CEOs available with a single phone call; the sense that, just by entering the school, he has somehow become a card-carrying member of the Davos set... Eddie Murphy once did a "Saturday Night Live" skit in which, donning the guise of a white businessman, he finds everyone jostling to give him free money and gifts. That was a joke; this is Ivy League reality.
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