What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School

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1. PeroniJun 2019
   What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

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2. learning_stillOct 2015
   My 2cents: Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people" will always hold true. Additionally, many books on business relationships. One that comes to mind is, "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School." Fake it til you make it is a viable self help strategy. But truthfully, I think the best thing to do is to surround yourself with people who represent the values you want to imitate.
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3. beilabsDec 2025
   I really enjoyed Leaders Eat Last and Careless People.

   2025 brought me to:

   The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick

   Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek

   A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

   The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

   What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark McCormack

   The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change - Adam Braun

   Neuromancer - William Gibson

   Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski

   We Were Eight Years In Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates

   Mort - Terry Pratchett

   I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

   The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Stephen King

   American Gods - Neil Gaiman

   The Boy’s in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

   Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

   Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business - Gino Wickman

   Source Code - Bill Gates

   Mythos - Stephen Fry

   Educated - Tara Westover

   Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood

   Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism is a memoir - Sarah Wynn-Williams

   Hail Mary - Andy Weir

   Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

   The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phipip K. Dick

   The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

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4. mikorymJan 2020
   > It's so tedious, repetitive, and obvious that I genuinely can't understand what people see in it.

   I think that can be said for a lot of books that are popular. It's a bit like applied math vs. pure math. In pure math, applied math is often seen as a "natural consequence". And yet, applied math is what most people view as useful and moreover, pure mathematicians often don't know how to apply mathematics to engineering or physics. Personally, I agree with you, but I think that what is obvious is not always precise, and what is precise is sometimes not used.

   I have a sort of moral objection to these kind of books too, but somehow you can both see these books as a sort of moral "cheating" and you can see these books as a useful way to better you relationships with other people (and both viewpoints have merit). I didn't read How to Win Friends and Influence People, but my comment is based on my experience with trying to read *What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School." [1]

   [1] By Mark H. McCormack.

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5. 3pt14159Sep 2010
   I remember reading somewhere (I think it was a book titled "What they don't teach you at Harvard business school") that the difference bettween 100 millionaires and billionaires was that the billionaires had a much higher rate of borrowing money to fund growth whereas 100-millionaires stopped borrowing once they were profitable.
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