Who wouldn't want to be a card carrying member of the "global business elite?" To talk the trendy talk and walk the swaggering walk of a Master of the Universe? To exit a two-year trade school with a six-figure salary at a Fortune 500 company all but guaranteed – despite...
[The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 432 page] MENTION THE NAME Niall Ferguson to many historians and economists and instantly their countenances cloud. The hyperactivity of the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, William Ziegler Professor of...
JARGON BUSTER Why do business school academics speak a language of their own, asks Chris Green In 2004, Philip Delves Broughton was working as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph in Paris. His job made him the envy of many, but after becoming increasingly uncertain about...
FUNDING A range of scholarships and specialist loans can help students to pay high course fees, says Harriet Swain In a recent book about his experiences studying for an MBA at Harvard see page IX, journalist Philip Delves Broughton describes his surprise at the number of...
* Philip Delves Broughton * Penguin * RRP $37.00 After a few months at Harvard Business School, Philip Delves Broughton was torn between a conviction that business had "become its own freak show" and his deepening understanding and sympathy for what...
Inside the cauldron of capitalism RRP $3? - published by Penguin Group. When Philip Delves Broughton abandoned his career as a successful journalist and enrolled in Harvard Business School's prestigious MBA course, he joined 900 other would-be tycoons in a 'cauldron of capitalism'. Broughton discovered that the School's...
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School By Philip Delves Broughton Penguin Press, 304 pages, $25.95 By simply being accepted into Harvard Business School, Philip Delves Broughton and his 900 fellow MBA candidates entered an uberclass. For HBS is a brand...
The Iraqi tyrant's translator tells Philip Delves Broughton that his master - 'a kind, patient man, ready to be contradicted' - was writing a novel on the eve of war Paris Less than a month before the invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was focusing on his latest novel. Be Gone,...
Ahead of next year's regional elections in Provence, Jean-Marie Le Pen is using his daughter to give the National Front a kinder, gentler face. Philip Delves Broughton reports Paris Beneath the cliffs of Bandiagara, on the edge of the Bongo plains, President Chirac was greeted by dancers in teetering Kananga...
Philip Delves Broughton ponders the silence of the French media in the face of revelations that the last three presidents have had second families Paris Within the next few months, Jacques Chirac's illegitimate son will turn 18 and the French press will face a dilemma. Do they celebrate his majority...
Philip Delves Broughton on the threats against Eva Joly, the judge investigating the French oil giant Paris During the past ten years, 34 out of the 128 Cabinet ministers to have served in the French government have been indicted, mostly for financial crimes. President Chirac himself has had to rig...
In the French catechism, gluttony is given as 'gourmandise'. Philip Delves Broughton says virtuous French gourmands want it changed Paris BEFORE his death last year in a helicopter accident, France's best-known baker, Lionel Poilane, drafted a letter to the Pope in which he asked for a change to...
Philip Delves Broughton, in Monaco for the trial of Ted Maher, finds that the principality is a rotten little retirement home for fat cats IT was bucketing down in Monte Carlo and the casino was empty. Croupiers sat forlornly at the tables in the gilded Salle d'Europe and in...
He fell for the boss's daughter during a political row, but Eric Iorio is finding Marine Le Pen hard work. Philip Delves Broughton reports Paris COHABITING with Jean Marie Le Pen's youngest daughter Marine, the Wagnerian blonde muscle of the National Front, has made Eric Iorio a humble...
The new Republican mayor of New York has some conservatives gagging, says Philip Delves Broughton New York AT the end of May, about a week before Mike Bloomberg declared he would be running to be mayor of New York, I interviewed him in his office, just off the...
Philip Delves Broughton takes us on a bar crawl through New York BURIED in most imaginations is a classic New York dive: smoky, sleazy, a little funkysmelling; full of drunks, sluts and wits fugitives from sunlight and ambition. Maybe there's a Cary Grant figure, waiting in a trench coat...
CHARLES MOORE, editor of The Daily Telegraph, is about to receive an avalanche of post, and all from his own staff. Reporters in the newsroom were very interested to learn that the paper's New York correspondent, Philip Delves Broughton, is moving to Paris. As old hands wondered who had served...
After the grief, the relief Philip Delves Broughton on how Manhattan's heroic firemen are finding comfort under the duvet New York THE good news from here is that the firemen are getting all the sex they could want. While the desperate, lonely men who make up Osama bin...
Philip Delves Broughton watches a reformed Woody Allen go about his business as a Manhattan conservationist New York SIX feet to my left, a scuffed pair of tennis shoes on a splayed pair of feet beneath a sagging pair of brown cords is shuffling down the pavement. `Look...
Philip Delves Broughton has been watching the next president of the United States probably, and he likes what he sees FROM high in the stands at the University of Texas athletics stadium, a grey-haired man in a grey T-shirt and blue shorts can be seen pounding around the track....
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