Is the author of The Art of the Sale, published in the UK as Life’s a Pitch, and Ahead of the Curve — Two Years at Harvard Business School, published outside the US as What They Teach You at Harvard Business School. He was born in Dacca, Bangladesh, where his father worked as a Church of England missionary and his mother spent four years after leaving Burma with her family. He grew up in England, received a BA in Classics from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard Business School. From 1994 to 2004 he was a newspaper journalist. From 1998 to 2002, he was the New York correspondent for The Daily Telegraph of London and from 2002 to 2004, Paris Bureau Chief. He left daily journalism in 2004 to go to business school. In addition to his books, he write regularly for The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Spectator. From 2009-2010, he spent several months at Apple Inc. writing case studies for Apple University, its internal management program, and now work with The Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship and Education. He lives in Connecticut.
What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism