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A reading list of books written or recommended by Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni and faculty:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
By Jim Collins
– Recommended by Hadley Ford (MBA ’91)
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
By Ben Horowitz
– Recommended by Joanna McFarland (MBA ’05) and Yi Wang (Stanford Ignite ’14)
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
By Michael Hiltzik
– Recommended by Stanford GSB Dean Jonathan Levin
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior
By Jonah Berger (PhD ’07)
The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great
Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma
By Professor Charles O’Reilly and Michael Tushman
Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least
By Jessica Jackley (MBA ’07)
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
By Adam Grant
– Recommended by Professor Jennifer Aaker
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
By Dan Jurafsky
– Recommended by Professor Glenn Carroll
The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It
By David Weil
– Recommended by Professor Jens Hainmueller
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
By Ben Goldacre
– Recommended by Professor Michal Kosinski
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
– Recommended by Professor Maureen McNichols
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