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7 Habits of Highly Effective people - Stephen R. Covey The Toyota Way - Jeffrey Liker The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter Bernstein The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell Your MBA Game Plan - Omari Bouknight and Scott Schrum Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table - Jeffrey Fox The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman The Goal - Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith Good to Great - Jim Collins
1. Snapshots from Hell. Amazing book 2. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School. Amazing book 3. Resilience at Work - How to Succeed No Matter What Life Throws at You. HBS Working Knowledge. (some interesting cases) Amazing book 4. How to stay struck in the wrong career. HBR 5. Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums - What to do next when you are bored, retired, or fired.
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Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath I Will Teach You To Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi The Purple Cow, by Seth Godin Permission Marketing, by Seth Godin
Larry Gonicks Cartoon Guide to Statistics, which will give you a jump on the hardest quant class in your first semester, one on which other important classes like Finance and Operations depend. If you actually understand the content in this book, you will do better in your stats class its as simple as that, Chris tells us. The title might sound silly, but the content is truly useful.
Finance Books
1. Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the soul of Morgan Stanley 2. Handbook of Corporate Finance: A Business Companion to Financial Markets, Decisions and Techniques 3. Banker to the Poor - book about the Grameen Bank and microfinance in the third world, and
delves into how capitalism and the free market can be harnessed to return value to vulnerable communities x3 4. Liar's poker - a bit dated but its gives you a sweet intro to the S&T world x2 5. Ugly Americans (HFs) 6. When Markets Collide 7. Damn it feels good to be a banker - And Other Baller Things You Only Get to Say If You Work On Wall Street x2 - by Leveraged Sellout (it looks brilliant if it's the same quality as the blog)
Economics Books
1. Travels of a T-shirt - is pretty fun, written by a prof at georgetown - she explores the global economy (and the institutions that govern it) by following the creation, life, and death of your average t-shirt. 2. The World is Flat - Do not Buy 3. Passionate Economist 4. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More 5. The End of Poverty - Harvard Alum and Professor at Columbia's Global Earth Institute, Sachs presents interesting, simple (perhaps even common sense) solutions to tackling the following obsctackes we will face in the upcoming century namely: the environment, poverty (extreme - less than $1-2/day) and population growth (in the poorest countries). 6. Common Wealth - regarding Jeffrey Sachs - as someone who works in international development, I'd like to point out that for all his popularity among the general public, most people working in the field think a lot of his "big ideas" are sheer lunacy. Particularly the idea of a "big push" to massively increase the amount of official development aid to developing-world governments. He's a very smart guy, and End of Poverty (as well as Common Wealth) are both interesting books with a lot of good information - but the policy prescriptions they contain are totally off the mark. 7. The White Man's Burden - t provides an outstanding analysis of not only successes and failures of trying to develop the third world, but at lot of it also applies to life in general (politics, economics, society, etc). 8. The Forgotten Man 9. The Chicago School - For those thinking about going to Chicago and going to economics 10. Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? - For those thinking about going to Chicago and going to economics 11. Rise and fall of great powers by Paul Kennedy. though i read it about 10 years ago(when the book was too good for me). i immensely liked it. It beautifully captures a history of all great powers(economic and military) from sixteenth century to mid twentieth century. wonderful analysis and breadth in my humble opinion.
Leadership Books
1. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future 2. We need Managers, Not MBAs - It's a scathing look at MBAs. If anyone reads this again, please keep an eye out for the part where he reveals the statistics that something like 70% of MBAs quit their jobs within two years of graduating (suggesting that the vast majority pick "wrong"). I cant find the exact stats anymore, so please, if you see it, take note of the page
Behavioral Books
1. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - There's a little pop psychology to it, but it has some interesting insights. 2. Fooled by Randomness 3. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell: I had thought about many of the theories he exposes way before this came out, but it's still an interesting/easy/quick read.
4. Predictably Irrational - is by a fuqua prof that is a total boy genius. it's behavioral econ. 5. Why We Buy - if you have any interest in running a business that is consumer-facing (CPG, banking, retail, restaurants, the post office) this is a must-read. or if you just wanna know why the bananas are where they are in the grocery store. Behavioral Econ. 6. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler - written by a lawyer and an economist from the University of Chicago. The book sort of sits at the intersection of public policy and business, and provides examples of how consumers can be 'nudged' towards decisions that are in their economic/physical/emotional/etc... best interest. You get the point after the first few chapters, but it's worth finishing nonetheless. (recommended by CS11)
M&A Books
1. M&A Titans M&A Titans: The Pioneers Who Shaped Wall Street's Mergers and Acquisitions Industry - about some of the legendary dealmakers in Wall Street's golden era (recommended by JB32) 2. Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes - (especially relevant for future Darden IB's since it was written by a Darden prof.) - case study about 10 of the worst deals of all time. (recommended by JB32)
3. The Big Deal by Bruce Wasserstein - The book is loooooooooonnnngggg (like 1,000+ pages), but provides a history of deal making by industry from the 1950's up through 2001 (published in 2002). It's amazing how much M&A shaped many of the familiar brands we know today. Then, the second half of the book chronicles how a deal gets done and who the main players are. I would recommend this book for anyone that wants to be a dealmaker. (recommended by JB32)
Accounting Books
1. The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting
Marketing Books
Why We Shop: The Science of Shopping" by Paco Underhill. I found it very interesting especially for those with an interest in CPG, brand management, marketing, retail and even consulting. Its a quick read and very entertaining. I definitely find myself thinking differently every time I walk into a store now.
Management Books
1. How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers - to all future Management Consultants... 2. The Halo Effect:... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers - Wow! Good book. It pretty much blows apart a lot of the analysis people do to find out what makes a company "successful".
Green Books
1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded - which is about why we need a green revolution. While i'm just 1/3 of the way through, it's excellent so far... He's got some hard facts scientifically, politically, and economically about why we need to care about our planet and makes it easier for me to explain to another layperson why we need a green revolution. 2. Green to Gold by Daniel Esty x2
IT and Operations
1. Black Swan - not recommended (I read part of the book when it came out but just got sick of it and never finished. If true "black swan" events by definition cannot be predicted or foreseen in any way, what's the point of it?) 2. The Goal - is something you'll probably read in your ops class. the best textbook ever, the worst novel ever. i'm a closet ops geek, so i dug it.