Snapshots from Hell

The making of an MBA

Peter Robinson

Publisher: Warner / Grand Central Publishing / Hachette, 1994, 286 pages

ISBN: 0-446-67117-7

Keywords: Biography, MBA

Last modified: May 9, 2021, 1:39 a.m.

It has been called a union card for yuppies. It's a ticket to a six-figure salary and the inside track to wealth and power. It is an MBA from a university like Stanford. And, in this hilarious, sobering, and thought-provoking book by one recent Stanford Business School graduate, you can find how to get it — if you dare.

As his thirtieth birthday loomed and his friends began to acquire such grown-up possessions as homes and European cars, presidential speechwriter Peter Robinson decided to leave the White House and embark on a more lucrative career path. Nothing could have prepared him for business school. From professors who were out of touch to textbooks that didn't speak English, from a fascinating cast of fellow go-getters to the mad scramble for that first great job offer, Peter Robinson chronicles the agony and some ecstasy — in a book that does for business school what Scott Turow's One L did for Harvard Law.

  • Prologue: Farewell to the Chief
  • Fall Term: Inferno
    • ONE: Math Camp
    • TWO: Orientation: Woe Is Me in a Hot Tub
    • THREE: Inside the Classroom: Snapshots from Hell
    • FOUR: Student Life: More Snapshots from Hell
    • FIVE: Midterms: The Horror
    • SIX: The Stockholm Syndrome
    • SEVEN: Finals: The Peasants Are revolting
    • EIGHT: Home for Christmas
  • Winter Term: Inferno, Cont'd
    • NINE: Witer Term Overture: It's Cold and It's Damp
    • TEN: Number Blind
    • ELEVEN: Thermoclines
    • TWELVE: This Institution Is in Deep Frijoles
    • THIRTEEN: Summer Job Interviews: Buddy, Can You Spare Ten Grand?
    • FOURTEEN: Upswing
    • FIFTEEN: The Frijoles Hit the Fan
  • Spring Term: Purgatorio
    • SIXTEEN: Spring Term Overture: Sing Like a Cuckoo
    • SEVENTEEN: Managing Strategic Management: Starve Problems, Feed Opportunities
    • EIGHTEEN: Cold-Called
    • NINETEEN: The Intellectual Life of the Baby Wolverine
    • TWENTY: Race and Gender
    • TWENTY-ONE: Club Stanford
    • TWENTY-TWO: We're All Here to Help the Poor
  • Epilogue: Paradiso (Sort Of)

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Snapshots from Hell

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Decent ****** (6 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 3:23 a.m.

A very funny book about the authors first year at Stanford. It should have covered year two as well.

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