Philip Delves Broughton
Business journalist and author
Philip Delves Broughton is a British journalist and author who writes about business. He worked as a foreign correspondent before earning an MBA at Harvard Business School.
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Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh
About Philip Delves Broughton
Philip Delves Broughton was born in Bangladesh and grew up in the United Kingdom. He studied classics at Oxford, then spent about ten years as a journalist for The Daily Telegraph, with postings in New York and Paris. He later earned an MBA at Harvard Business School, a period he wrote about in Ahead of the Curve. He has also written The Art of the Sale, and both books have been international bestsellers. Broughton has contributed to the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News. He also worked with Stephen A. Schwarzman on the memoir What it Takes, and wrote the children's book Charlie Whistler's Omnium Gatherum.