Having nurtured generations of leaders who go on to become movers and shakers in the business world, an admission ticket to Harvard Business School is highly coveted. A Harvard Business School degree commands respect.

Author Emily Chan, in Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success, shares the lessons and secrets to success taught to Harvard Business School students.

Providing a glimpse behind the hallowed walls, the Harvard Business School graduate and seasoned businesswoman seeks to give readers and those embarking on their Harvard journey a head start.

Chan graduated at the top of her engineering class at Stanford and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

She was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for eight years, and also worked as a corporate strategist and an independent consultant in Greater China.

With interesting anecdotes from Harvard Business School case studies, along with the author's personal experiences, this book is a distillation of lessons on life and business.

The book also provides a wealth of good tools for business assessment, financial planning and investing.

A light-hearted read filled with real-life business advice, Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success will be an enlightening read for entrepreneurs and laypersons.

Book name: Harvard

Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success

Author: Emily Chan

ISBN: 978-0-470-82239-5

Price: $19.95; 240 pages

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd

(China Daily 09/14/2009 page6)