To us at MBAUniverse.com, books mean a lot no other medium is as mobile, easy-to-handle, has such great reference value, and packs so many perspectives. Of course, you have to pick the right books! Here, we present a selection of best international books, published in 2007, where authors have explored topics like financial markets, management studies and social phenomenon.
Make sure you know about these titles, because these books are on the reading list of CEOs and business tycoons world over.
Next part of this series will feature Best Books by Indian authors. Watch out!
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan
One of the most publicized business book of the year was also among the most thought provocative. Former US Federal bank chief Alan Greenspans The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World made headlines with its derision for the current US Administrations economics, and political affairs in US. The volume is also a memoir of Greenspans life -- from his upbringing in New York to the rise to the top of the worlds most powerful central bank. The books true value lies in its second half, where the author offers his views on everything from Russia to financial regulation and the inevitable slowdown of globalization.
Alan Greenspan is an influential management thinker, and was ranked as No #3 on the Thinkers 50 list.
A good read for an analytical world-view.
Amazon.com link:http://www.amazon.com/Age-Turbulence-Adventures-New-World/dp/1594201315
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frres & Co, by William D Cohan
This winner of Financial Times/ Goldman Sachs Best Business Books of 2007 award is a no-holds-barred account of the rise of Lazard Frres, the famous investment bank. How an investment bank concentrated on providing corporate advice to the rich and powerfula business model that relied not on its balance sheet but on the brains and wile. William Cohan used to work at Lazards himself.
A must read for the investment bankers in the making.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Tycoons-Secret-History-Lazard/dp/0385514514
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams
The book explains how internet-based collaboration can be harnessed to produce even more innovative content, products and services. Based on a $9 million research project led by bestselling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing the human genome, remixing their favourite music, designing software, finding a cure for disease, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, or even building motorcycles.
According to Tapscott, Wikinomics is based on four ideas: Openness, Peering, Sharing, and Acting Globally. The book also discusses the seven new models of mass collaboration: peer pioneers, ideagoras, prosumers , new Alexandrians, platforms for participation, global plant floor, wiki workplace.
An easy read that puts together the pieces of Web 2.0 and recent media developments.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Wikinomics-Mass-Collaboration-Changes-Everything/dp/1591841380
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Harvard Business Schools Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself.
Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct.
Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.
Scholarly in its makeup, the book is a useful addition to the bookshelves of management educators.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Aims-Hired-Hands-Transformation/dp/069112020X
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
According to the author of this rather interesting book, any attempts at prediction are a fools game. Talebs advice is to assume that crazy things can and will happen. You should be ready, so that you can benefit from positive crazy things rather than being hurt by negative crazy things. This best-seller is all about the unpredictability of life. Author questions the mathematical constructs underlying modern finance. A good read for the other side of logic.
A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. And why do we always ignore the phenomenon of Black Swans until after they occur? says the publishers.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515
The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the number-one undergraduate business program in the United States. Five hundred of the worlds best, brightest students enter the school, where they spend the next four years battling it out with classmates in rigorous exams graded on the intricacies of finance. And then they will test themselves during a gruelling ten-week-long recruiting rush.
In The Running of the Bulls, financial reporter Nicole Ridgway takes you inside the ivied walls of Wharton and into the maelstrom of the Class of 2004s recruiting season, through the eyes of seven seniors with a broad range of backgrounds and career paths. Along the way, each of these students endures high-pressure interviews and faces the ultimate decision about selecting a job that will either set them on the fast track to success or lead their nascent careers to a dead end. An insiders guide to how best financial institutions pick their talent, and how the young bulls cope up with all the pressure.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Running-Bulls-Inside-Cutthroat-Wharton/dp/1592401252
Next part of this series will feature Best Books by Indian authors. Watch out!
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To us at MBAUniverse.com, books mean a lot no other medium is as mobile, easy-to-handle, has such great reference value, and packs so many perspectives. Of course, you have to pick the right books! Here, we present a selection of best international books, published in 2007, where authors have explored topics like financial markets, management studies and social phenomenon.
Make sure you know about these titles, because these books are on the reading list of CEOs and business tycoons world over.
Next part of this series will feature Best Books by Indian authors. Watch out!
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan
One of the most publicized business book of the year was also among the most thought provocative. Former US Federal bank chief Alan Greenspans The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World made headlines with its derision for the current US Administrations economics, and political affairs in US. The volume is also a memoir of Greenspans life -- from his upbringing in New York to the rise to the top of the worlds most powerful central bank. The books true value lies in its second half, where the author offers his views on everything from Russia to financial regulation and the inevitable slowdown of globalization.
Alan Greenspan is an influential management thinker, and was ranked as No #3 on the Thinkers 50 list.
A good read for an analytical world-view.
Amazon.com link:http://www.amazon.com/Age-Turbulence-Adventures-New-World/dp/1594201315
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frres & Co, by William D Cohan
This winner of Financial Times/ Goldman Sachs Best Business Books of 2007 award is a no-holds-barred account of the rise of Lazard Frres, the famous investment bank. How an investment bank concentrated on providing corporate advice to the rich and powerfula business model that relied not on its balance sheet but on the brains and wile. William Cohan used to work at Lazards himself.
A must read for the investment bankers in the making.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Tycoons-Secret-History-Lazard/dp/0385514514
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams
The book explains how internet-based collaboration can be harnessed to produce even more innovative content, products and services. Based on a $9 million research project led by bestselling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing the human genome, remixing their favourite music, designing software, finding a cure for disease, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, or even building motorcycles.
According to Tapscott, Wikinomics is based on four ideas: Openness, Peering, Sharing, and Acting Globally. The book also discusses the seven new models of mass collaboration: peer pioneers, ideagoras, prosumers , new Alexandrians, platforms for participation, global plant floor, wiki workplace.
An easy read that puts together the pieces of Web 2.0 and recent media developments.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Wikinomics-Mass-Collaboration-Changes-Everything/dp/1591841380
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Harvard Business Schools Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself.
Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct.
Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.
Scholarly in its makeup, the book is a useful addition to the bookshelves of management educators.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Aims-Hired-Hands-Transformation/dp/069112020X
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
According to the author of this rather interesting book, any attempts at prediction are a fools game. Talebs advice is to assume that crazy things can and will happen. You should be ready, so that you can benefit from positive crazy things rather than being hurt by negative crazy things. This best-seller is all about the unpredictability of life. Author questions the mathematical constructs underlying modern finance. A good read for the other side of logic.
A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. And why do we always ignore the phenomenon of Black Swans until after they occur? says the publishers.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515
The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the number-one undergraduate business program in the United States. Five hundred of the worlds best, brightest students enter the school, where they spend the next four years battling it out with classmates in rigorous exams graded on the intricacies of finance. And then they will test themselves during a gruelling ten-week-long recruiting rush.
In The Running of the Bulls, financial reporter Nicole Ridgway takes you inside the ivied walls of Wharton and into the maelstrom of the Class of 2004s recruiting season, through the eyes of seven seniors with a broad range of backgrounds and career paths. Along the way, each of these students endures high-pressure interviews and faces the ultimate decision about selecting a job that will either set them on the fast track to success or lead their nascent careers to a dead end. An insiders guide to how best financial institutions pick their talent, and how the young bulls cope up with all the pressure.
Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Running-Bulls-Inside-Cutthroat-Wharton/dp/1592401252
Next part of this series will feature Best Books by Indian authors. Watch out!
| Check Top MBA Colleges in India by Cities | | |
| Also Read Important Articles on MBA Admission | ||
| Top MBA Colleges in India | MBA Admission | MBA Entrance Exam |
| MBA Placements | MBA Ranking In India | GD Topics |
In the age of instant information, courtesy Google and Wiki, what role do books play?