Robinson wrote more than 300 speeches during his White House tenure. After serving for six years, Robinson attended business school at Stanford University where he earned a Master of Business Administration in 1990. The journal he kept of his two-year experience there was the basis for his book "Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA", published in 1994, which details the considerable difficulty he encountered during the first year of business school due to his lack of a "quantitative background".