Insights
Chris LoPresti
This book compiles practical wisdom and candid advice from 101 highly successful Yale entrepreneurs. Through easily digestible reflections, it covers crucial aspects of starting and growing a business, from managing risk and building a team to fostering perseverance and finding passion. It offers invaluable lessons learned the hard way, designed to help aspiring and current entrepreneurs navigate the challenges and opportunities of their ventures.
The Privileged Poor
Anthony Abraham Jack
Delve into the hidden challenges faced by disadvantaged students at elite colleges. This insightful book uncovers how even the most prestigious institutions, despite their best intentions, often fail to adequately support and integrate students from less privileged backgrounds, perpetuating cycles of inequality. A critical examination of the higher education system that will change how you view access and opportunity.
The Third Teacher
Cannon Design
This collaborative project explores the profound link between the school environment and how children learn, offering 79 practical design ideas to revolutionize teaching and learning spaces. Drawing on insights from architects, educators, scientists, and creativity experts, the book advocates for environments that prioritize basic needs, foster creativity, connect with communities, embrace sustainability, engage the senses, and promote inclusive learning for all children. It's a call to action for transforming education through thoughtful design.
Teach Like a Champion
Doug Lemov
Discover 49 essential techniques to transform your students into college-bound achievers. Learn from champion teachers how to set high expectations, plan for academic success, engage students, and build a strong classroom culture. This book provides concrete, specific, and actionable advice to unlock your students' latent talent and rewrite the equation of opportunity.
Change by Design
Tim Brown
Explore the power of design thinking and how it can transform organizations and inspire innovation. This book delves into the principles and practices of design thinking, offering a framework for generating breakthrough ideas and tackling complex problems in business and society. Discover how to integrate human needs with technological feasibility and economic viability to create meaningful change.
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder
A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow’s enterprises. It offers powerful, simple, tested tools for understanding, designing, reworking, and implementing business models. Learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a new business model — or analyze and renovate an old one.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in any sector. By focusing on validated learning, rapid experimentation, and iterative product releases, entrepreneurs can learn what customers want and build sustainable businesses. This book offers a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.
The Art of Innovation
Tom Kelley
This book reveals the success formula of IDEO, America's leading design firm, offering practical lessons in creativity and product innovation. Through engaging examples, it explores IDEO's unique methodologies, culture, and practices, including observation, brainstorming, teamwork, and rapid prototyping, to inspire readers to enhance their own innovativeness and drive breakthrough product development.