Reflections on the Ivy League

The Yaliens Among Us

NOT LONG AGO, at a party on the Lower East Side, a young man decided to play a trick on a girl he had only just met. A mutual friend had introduced them. He asked her where she had gone to school.

The answer was “Yale.”

“He was like, ‘Whoa, what was that like?’” the Read More

Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree Has Book Proposal on Gates Arrest, Which Suggests Skip Will Skip His

Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree is looking to write a book centered on what happened when his client, friend, and colleague Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. was arrested in his home on charges of disorderly conduct last month, an incident that turned the nation’s attention to the issue of racial profiling. Several sources confirmed Read More

Barbarians on the Charles

Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
By Philip Delves Broughton
The Penguin Press, 288 pages, $25.95

Most of the graduates of the Harvard Business School go on to lucrative careers in banking or management. Not Philip Delves Broughton, author of Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School; his Read More