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HBS Working Knowledge
May 1, 2009
Jim Heskett |
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size? How do a few well-known large companies continue to innovate? Several business books answer this question.   |
Reason
May 2009
Damon W. Root |
Soundbite: The Raw Deal In his provocative new book New Deal or Raw Deal?, Hillsdale College historian Burt Folsom takes aim at the iconic legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
Reason
May 2009
Tim Harford |
The Development Dilemma Can parking tickets explain why poor countries are poor? A new book, Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations by Fisman and Miguel tries to explain this. |
Reason
May 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Briefly Noted: Foie Fight Mark Caro, author of The Foie Gras Wars, inadvertently kicked off a national debate about the much-derided delicacy with a 2006 story for the Chicago Tribune about an inter-chef squabble. |
Reason
May 2009
Gregory Benford |
Choosing Our Own Future Will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty? Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World, by David Friedman, addresses this issue. |
Reason
May 2009
Damon W. Root |
Briefly Noted: Punk/Metal Rules! Despite its distracting academic jargon, Steve Waksman's This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk pinpoints an underappreciated truth. |
Science News
Josh Korenblat |
Book Review: Darwin's Sacred Cause: How A Hatred Of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views On Human Evolution By Adrian Desmond And James Moore / Science News Adrian Desmond and James Moore, who received acclaim for a 1991 Darwin biography, persuasively show Darwin as a great unifier. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Michelle Press |
Scientific American Reviews: Manhattan, Circa 1609 Excerpt from Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric w. Sanderson... Einstein's Telescope by Evalyn Gates... Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy... |
Wired
Mark Horowitz |
Nabokov's Final Riddle: Literary Prank Master's Post-Mortem Novel He may be dead, but this fall Vladimir Nabokov is back with a new novel, The Original of Laura -- or at least the beta version. |
Wired
Scott Brown |
Scott Brown on Sherlock Holmes, Obsessed Nerds, and Fan Fiction Well over a century after Sherlock Holmes died, Holmes-based fan fiction is still being churned out |
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