A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist establishments, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling writer of The Firm.

WITH ALL THE Firm, economic journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the internal workings of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and impact: Harvard Business School.

Harvard University or college occupies a distinctive put in place the public’s imagination, but HBS has about The Golden Passport: Harvard Business College, the Limitations of Capitalism, and the Moral Failing from the MBA Elite arguably eclipsed its mother or father with regards to its influence on society. A Harvard level warranties respect. An HBS degree is, as the New York Times proclaimed in 1978, ‘the golden passport alive in the upper class.’ Those keeping Harvard MBAs are near-guaranteed entrance into European capitalism’s most effective realm-the corner workplace.

A lot of people have a vague knowledge of the energy of the HBS network, but few understand the dynamics which have made HBS an indestructible and powerful force for almost a hundred years. As McDonald explores these dynamics, he also reveals how, despite HBS’s tremendous success, it has failed with respect to the mentioned objective of its founders: ‘the multiplication of guys who will handle their current business complications in socially constructive methods.’ While HBS graduates tend to be very good at whatever they do, that is hardly ever the doing of good.

In addition to teasing out the essence of the exclusive, if not necessarily ‘secret’ golf club, McDonald explores two essential questions: Gets the college failed at achieving the goals it collection for itself? And it is HBS consequently complicit in the moral failings of Western capitalism? At a time of pronounced financial disparity and political unrest, this hard-hitting however fair portrait offers a much-needed take a look at an organization that has a profound influence on the form of our society and all our lives.