Philip Delves Broughton

Philip Delves Broughton is the author of Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School and The Art of the Sale. Most recently, he collaborated with Stephen Schwarzman, the chief executive officer of Blackstone on his memoir What it Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence. He was educated at the University of Oxford and received his MBA at Harvard Business School. He began his career as a reporter and foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph (London) in New York and Paris. He was a regular columnist for the Financial Times for ten years, has been a managing director at Santander, the largest bank in Europe, and currently works at the Brunswick Group, a leading global communications firm. He lives in New York.