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BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009
Steve Hamm |
The King of the Cloud Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's book, Behind the Cloud, is a fun, user-friendly guide for entrepreneurs and spectators.   |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2009
Alice Schroeder |
Buffett, Railroads, and the Lessons of History The author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, analyzes the Oracle's biggest deal ever. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 16, 2009
Martha Lagace |
The Times Captures History of American Business A new volume edited and narrated by Nancy Koehn, The Story of American Business: From the Pages of The New York Times, presents more than a hundred timely articles from the 1850s to today. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2009
Tom Kosinski |
Review: Agassi "Opens" Up The author offers comments on the new book, Open, by famed tennis player, Andre Agassi. |
TIME Europe
November 23, 2009
Lev Grossman |
It's Twilight in America On the eve of New Moon, the second film in the Twilight series, the author reveals how Stephanie Meyer's Twilight vampire book series became a universal obsession |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Amy Lifson |
The General Lew Wallace Study A larger-than-life limestone frieze of the face of Judah Ben-Hur hovers over the entrance to the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana. |
BusinessWeek
November 12, 2009
Chris Farrell |
Books: John Cassidy's How Markets Fail Blind faith in the markets, says John Cassidy, author of How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, caused the financial meltdown. We can avert future calamities via 'reality-based economics' |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 9, 2009
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership An interview with a coauthor of "Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us about Leadership." |
Sports Central
November 6, 2009
Mert Ertunga |
Andre Agassi is Still a Legend Andre Agassi's autobiography, "Open" -- due out in November -- should be as entertaining as Agassi was during his career on the tennis court. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009
Robert D. Hof |
The Geekdom of Google Ken Auletta's new book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, probes the hard-driving personality of the search giant, where the tech mindset is all-pervasive. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 5, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired. |
TIME Asia
November 16, 2009
Ling Woo Liu |
Moving Pictures A selection of images from Andreas Seibert's 2008 book "From Somewhere to Nowhere: China's Internal Migrants," will be showcased for two months beginning Nov. 12 at Zurich's Helmhaus Museum. |
TIME Asia
November 16, 2009
Neel Mukherjee |
The Drama Queen In "The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham" Selina Hastings has written a magnificent, gripping account of the contrarieties that were held together in Maugham's personality. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Amy Lifson |
Ben Hur: the Book That Shook the World Since its first publication, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has never been out of print. It outsold every book except the Bible until Gone With the Wind came out in 1936, and resurged to the top of the list again in the 1960s. |
Inc.
November 1, 2009
Leigh Buchanan |
The Real Ayn Rand A groundbreaking new biography paints a surprising - and surprisingly lurid - picture of the writer and thinker. |
Outside
November 2009
Bruce Barcott |
The 10 Greatest Adventure Biographies The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory by Peter and Leni Gillman... Ernest Shackleton by Roland Huntford... Henry Morton Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer By Tim Jeal... etc. |
Outside
November 2009
Bruce Barcott |
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King In his biography of Jacques Cousteau, Brad Matsen reminds us that Cousteau earned his fame honestly. He invented the modern understanding of the sea. |
CFO
November 1, 2009 |
Drucker@100 How much do you know about "social ecologist" and ultimate management guru Peter Drucker? |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Marion Asnes |
Bookshelf In The History of Financial Planning, Brandon and Welch describe planning as a pursuit that rapidly evolved into an intellectual and business discipline full of vitality and idealism. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Donna Mitchell |
4 Questions with Michael J. Silverstein The author of Women Want More examines the spending categories of women and particularly emphasizes how unhappy women are with financial services, healthcare and consumer durables. |
CRM
October 2009
Jessica Tsai |
Required Reading: In Us We Trust Chris Brogan, co-author of the new Trust Agents, explains why there's no better relationship than one built on trust. |
CRM
October 2009
Jessica Tsai |
Required Reading: Measuring Your Marketing The author of The Marketing Performance Measurement Toolkit tries to help marketers identify what success really means. |
Fast Company
November 2009
Kate Rockwood |
Battle of the Books: Scroogenomics vs. Shoptimism Just in time for holiday shopping are two books centered on consumerism: Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays, by Joel Waldfogel, and Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What, by Lee Eisenberg. |
Outside
October 2009
Jeremy Spencer |
David Byrne: Talking Head on Two Wheels In his new travelogue, Bicycle Diaries, celebrated musician/artist/writer David Byrne talks about rethinking cities around the bike. |
Philanthropy
October 1, 2009
Martin Morse Wooster |
The Commodore In The First Tycoon, T. J. Stiles shows that Cornelius Vanderbilt, while decidedly not a first-tier donor, is a significant figure in American business history. Stiles' will likely prove to be the definitive biography. |
Philanthropy
October 1, 2009
Frederic Fransen |
Conscience Capitalism Rethinking the relationships among capitalism, creativity, entrepreneurship, government, compassion, and philanthropy. |
Finance & Development
September 2009 |
Book Reviews Books of economic interest: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, by Dambisa Moyo... Successes of the International Monetary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at Work, by Michael A. Clemens... more... |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Who Said It: Violins of Autumn In this edition of Who Said It?, we harvest literature and history to reap the ways the season serves as marker and metaphor for the passage of time. Here's a quiz to test your knowledge. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
David Holthouse |
Alaska's Gregory W. Kimura To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Alaska's statehood, the Alaska Humanities Forum is publishing Alaska at 50: The Past, Present, and Next Fifty Years of Statehood, a collection of essays by artists, politicians, and activists selected by Kimura, who edited the work. |
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