Harvard Business School is the iconic business school. An admission ticket to HBS is a hot commodity and an HBS degree is highly respected in the business world. Written by an HBS grad and seasoned businesswoman, tells you why. It is a distillation of the most valuable and pragmatic but yet easiest to learn concepts taught at HBS. Emily Chan graduated top of her engineering class at Stanford and has a MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a former consultant with BCG in Boston and Hong Kong, and independent consultant in Greater China. Based in Hong Kong, she is now Director of Pacific Merit Ltd, a family-owned direct investment company.