Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA

by Peter Robinson

Overview

Based on the daily diary Peter Robinson kept at Stanford Business School, and peppered with a cast of unforgettable characters and situations, Snapshots from Hell answers the perennial question What is business school really like? as it recounts the author's own precarious, exhilarating and sleepless quest for the coveted MBA degree.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446671170
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/1995
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Peter Robinson, a former speechwriter for Presidents Reagan and Bush, holds degrees from Dartmouth, Oxford, and Stanford. He is now a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution where he writes about business and politics.

Editorial Reviews

After six years as a White House speechwriter for Reagan and Bush, Robinson enrolled at Stanford Business School, wrestled for two years in perpetual exhaustion with often incomprehensible mathematical, organization and marketing concepts and, upon earning his MBA ``union card for yuppies,'' interviewed in the communications world of Robert Maxwell, Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch (who hired him for a brief stint). In the tradition of Scott Turow's One L for potential students who are curious about Harvard Law School, the author sets out with humor and perception to answer the question that no business school catalogue does: What is business school like? Then Robinson dismisses the value of an MBA degree in the economic downturn after the fat '80s; for him the degree did not pay off as a ``straight and easy road to riches.'' Robinson explains: ``Today I'm back to being what I was before I went to business school, a writer.'' BOMC and Fortune Book Club alternates. (May)

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