Decided to jot down the books I haven't read but would like to read
[Most of the items came from
here]
Strategy Essentials:
* Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter
* Competitive Advantage, Michael Porter
* The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Michael Porter
* Competing for the Future, Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad
* Gaining & Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Jay Barney
Competitive Interaction and Game Theory:
* Coopetition, Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff
* Thinking Strategically, Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
Global Strategy:
* The Borderless World, Kenichi Ohmae
* Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution, Chris Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
Strategy and the Internet:
* Information Rules, Shapiro and Hal Varian
* Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, D. Yoffie
Strategy Implementation:
* Corporate Culture & Leadership, Ed Schein
Knowledge Management:
* The Knowledge Creating Company, I. Nonaka & H. Takeuchi
Strategic Planning:
* The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, Henry Mintzberg
Strategic Alliances:
* Alliance Advantage, Gary Hamel and Yves Doz
Mergers and Acquisitions:
* Managing the Acquisition Process, Philippe Haspeslagh and David Jemison
Trust and Networks:
* Structural Holes, Ronald Burt
* Trust in Organizations, Roderick Kramer
Other Classics:
* My Years with General Motors, Alfred P. Sloan
* The Art of War, Sun Tzu
* Strategy and Structure, Alfred D. Chandler
* A Bias for Action, Sumantra Ghoshal & Heike Bruch
Managing Organizations :
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them [Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich]
The Winner’s Curse [Richard Thaler]
Competing by Design [Nadler and Tushman]
The Visible Hand [Alfred Chandler]
Tree: A Life Story [David Suzuki]
No Gods No Masters [Daniel Guerin]
Filling the Glass : The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business [Barry Maher]
How we know what isn’t so [Tom Gilovich]
Organizations in Action [James Thompson]
Organization and Environment [Lawrence and Lorsch]
Entrepreneurship:
- Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan, 2000. The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set. Harvard University Press.
- Clayton Christensen, 1997. The Innovator’s Dilemma. Harvard University Press.
- Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor, 2003. The Innovator’s Solution. Harvard University Press.
- Drucker, Peter. 1985. Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Harper & Row: New York.
- Duncan Watts, 2003. Six Degrees. Norton Press.
- Ronald Burt, 1995. Structural Holes (Chapter 1 and 3). Harvard University Press.
- Scott Shane, 2003. A General Theory of Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Press.
- Saxenian, Anna Lee, 1994. Regional Advantage. Harvard University Press.
- Bhide, Amar. 2000. The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. Oxford University Press: New York.
- Sahlman, William, Stevenson, Howard, Roberts, Michael and Bhide, Amar. 1999. The Entrepreneurial Venture, Second Edition. HBS Press: Boston.
- What do venture capitalists do? HBS Case 9-288-015
- Sahlman, Structure and Governance of V.C. Investment, in Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 27 (1990)
This list comes from THE GODDESS (a.k.a SIMBA)
1) The Mckinsey Way - Ethan Rasiel
2) Financial Sense - Prasanna Chandra (I think!!)
3) Wise and OtherWise - Sudha Murthy
4) MBA Handbook - Sheila Cameron
Stanford recommends Robert Anthony's Essentials of Accounting and Edward Dowling's Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social Sciences
A familiarity with current events is also key - The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes, and The New York Times
General Management/Advice:
• The Goal
By Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
• If I Knew Then What I Know Now: CEOs and Other Smart Executives Share Wisdom They Wish They'd Been Told 25 Years Ago
By Richard Edler
• The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving
By Barbara Minto
• What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School
By Mark H. McCormack
• What Color Is Your Parachute, 2000: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
By Richard Nelson Bolles
Wall Street/Investing:
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
• Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
By Michael Lewis
• Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
By John Rolfe and Peter Troob
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
By Burton Malkiel
• Understanding Wall Street
By Jeffrey B. Little and Lucien Rhodes
• The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing
By Kenneth M. Morris, Virginia B. Morris, and Alan M. Siegel
Internet/E-Commerce:
• Internet: The Complete Reference
Edited by Margaret Levine Young
• Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities
By John Hagel and Arthur G. Armstrong
• Net Worth
By John Hagel and Marc Singer
Marketing:
• The Brand You 50: Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself From an "Employee" Into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!
By Tom Peters
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
By Geoffrey A. Moore and Regic McKenna
• Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Inside Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge
By Geoffrey A. Moore
• Unleashing the Ideavirus
By Seth Godin (www.ideavirus.com)
Consulting:
• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
By Michael Porter
Pre MBA Must Read Books :
1. Snapshots from Hell : The Making of an MBA by Peter Robinson
2. Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
3. Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
4. Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem, Michael Kandel
5. Monkey Business : Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle by John Rolfe, Peter Troob
6. Investment Banking : A Tale of Three Cities by Samuel L., Iii Hayes, Philip M. Hubbard
7. The Predators' Ball : The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders by Connie Bruck
8. SOROS: The Unauthorized Biography, the Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert Slater
9. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
10. Everything I Know about Dating I Learned in Business School by A. K. Crump
11. The Fifth Discipline : The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
12. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
13. Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? : How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion Dollar Business Empire by Reginald F. Lewis, et al
14. The Minto Pyramid Principle : Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving by Barbara Minto
15. Age of Unreason by Charles Handy, Warren G. Bennis
16. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard
17. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras
18. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
19.. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
20. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
21. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
22. The Future of Success by Robert B. Reich
23. Iacocca : An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca, William Novak
24. My Years With General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan
25. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
26. Sam Walton : Made in America : My Story by Sam Walton
27. Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony by Akio Morita
28. Losing my Virginity : Autobiography of Richard Branson
29 High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
Some management books from this blog
Bossidy, L. & Charan, R. (2004) Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right. Crown Business Books.
Bruch, H. & Ghoshal, S. (2004) A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time. Harvard Business School Press.
Buckingham, M. & Coffman, C. (1999) First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. Simon & Schuster.
Collins, J. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t. (2002) Harper Collins.
Collins, J. & Porras, J. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. (2002) Harper Business Essentials.
Gardner, H. (2004) Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Mind. Harvard Business School Press.
Gosling, J. & Mintzberg, H. (November 2003) “The Five Minds of a Manager.” Harvard Business Review.
Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2002) The Leadership Challenge. Jossey-Bass Wiley.
Mintzberg, H. (March-April 1990) “The Manager’s Job: Folklore and Fact.” Harvard Business Review.
Moss Kanter, R. (2003) Best Practice: Ideas and Insights from the World’s Foremost Business Thinkers. Perseus Publishing.
Pfeffer, J. & Sutton, R.I. (2000) The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action. Harvard Business School Press.
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