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What's on the reading lists of Harvard Business School faculty? This is a curated three-year collection of the summer reading lists from Harvard Business School's top faculty. They explored not only sober themes, such as philosophy and climate policy, but classic mysteries and hip-hop history. Add the books to your reading list!
1. Opening the Code
Where intelligence, technology, and human thought collide.
Co-Intelligence
Recommended by Debora Spar, Professor of Business Administration
AI 2041
From Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administration
The Mind's I
Pick of Julian De Freitas, Assistant Professor of Marketing
2. Markets and Earth
Exploring wealth, inequality, and the planet's fragile balance.
Streets of Gold
From Marco Tabellini, Assistant Professor of Economics, Government, and International Economy
Sacred Economics
Recommended by Debora Spar, Professor of Business Administration
Billionaire Wilderness
Selected by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of Business Administration
Speed and Scale
Pick of Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of Business Administration, and former chief editor of Harvard Business Review
3. Stories We Inherit
Narratives of race, history, and voices reclaimed.
Four Hundred Souls
Recommended by Julia Austin, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
James
From Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of Business Administration
Cutting for Stone
Picked by Debora Spar, Professor of Business Administration
Lessons in Chemistry
Pick of Julia Austin, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
4. Life by Design
From habits to philosophy, shaping how we live and imagine.
Atomic Habits
Pick of Hise Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Technology & Operations Management
The Design of Everyday Things
Suggested by Shunyuan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Open Socrates
From Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administration
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Selected by Arthur C. Brooks, Professor of Management Practice at HBS
The Three-Body Problem
Pick of Shunyuan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Marketing