conclusions from this situation by linking it to the dog-eat-dog, rat-racing, ladder-climbing, and corner-cutting mentality of Harvard students" while "others have related it to the stressful nature of college admissions, and still others have blamed a cocktail of overzealous parents and intense pressure".
In a forthcoming book, Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, a former dean of the university, writes of Harvard: "The students are smarter, the faculty more distinguished, even the pedagogy is better - but students are less challenged than ever to grow in wisdom and to become the responsible leaders on whom the fate of the nation will depend.
"The university," Lewis goes on, "has had its head turned ever more by consumerism and by public relations imperatives, to the detriment of its educational priorities for its students. In short, money and prestige rule over principle and reason."
If I have learned one thing from my two-year MBA course at Harvard, however, it is this: great success can only be achieved 
