Books, Arts & Manners: Not Hell, Maybe Heck

Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA, by Peter Robinson (Warner, 286pp., $22.95)

IF HARVARD Business School is the West Point of Capitalism, and Stanford is the Yale of the West, that makes Stanford Business School—what? Well, according to Peter Robinson, it’s Sheer Agony and the inscription over the portals should have read, “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.” For that’s how Mr. Robinson sees himself in Palo Alto, as a poet in Hell.

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Neal B. Freeman

Neal B. Freeman, businessman and journalist, was a director of National Review Inc. for 38 years.

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Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA, by Peter Robinson (Warner, 286pp., $22.95)

IF HARVARD Business School is the West Point of Capitalism, and Stanford is the Yale of the West, that makes Stanford Business School—what? Well, according to Peter Robinson, it’s Sheer Agony and the inscription over the portals should have read, “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.” For that’s how Mr. Robinson sees himself in Palo Alto, as a poet in Hell.