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Andrew Watson's Picks
Northeastern University
"Don't tell my colleagues, but I do read some books which have little to do with business or with academia."
— On Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Craig Newmark's Picks
North Carolina State University
"It gives brief but solid introductions to a number of important contemporary policy issues."
— On The Economics of Public Issues

David A. Gautschi's Picks
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"This is a comprehensive analysis of the confluence of three major factors that promoted widespread prosperity for the first time in modern history."
— OnThe Birth of Plenty

David L. Deeds's Picks
University of Texas at Dallas
"Markets may be efficient, but as this book so gleefully demonstrates, the actors in those markets are far from the rational, profit-maximizing robots of classical economic theory."
— On Barbarians At The Gate

David L. Garrison's Picks
Georgetown University
"Paul Celan is the clearest and most painful poetic voice rising from the heart of the Holocaust."
— On Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan

Gloria Barczak's Picks
Northeastern University
"A great how-to-guide for managers interested in improving their new product development processes."
— On Winning at New Products

Harold H. Zhang's Picks
University of Texas at Dallas
"A classic investment guide for long-term investment strategy and personal money management."
— On A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Iris Mack's Picks
Florida International University
"It is a painful eye-opener as to what is going on in American schools."
— On The Shame of the Nation

James Danko's Picks
Villanova University
"It's always interesting to analyze effective leadership within different contexts, such as athletics, family life, and, in this case, music."
— On The Art of Possibility

Jeff Furman's Picks
Boston University
"This is the most overwhelming, fantastic, and mind-twisting novel I have ever read."
— On Gravity's Rainbow

Jerome Katz's Picks
Saint Louis University
"Great stories of the hits -- and especially the misses -- of the now superrich."
— On Accidental Empires

Jim Parco's Picks
U.S. Air Force Academy
"If you want to understand why we are where we are in the Middle East conflict, start here."
— On A Peace To End All Peace

John Zdanowicz's Picks
Florida International University
"Milton Friedman's writings convinced me that I was a libertarian and that personal and economic freedoms were two sides of the same coin."
— On Capitalism And Freedom

Karen Newman's Picks
University of Denver
"Only because it gave me a feel for pre-revolution Afghanistan that I never would have know about (or cared about) before reading the book."
— On The Kite Runner

Michael Curme's Picks
Miami University
"Anyone bothering to read my assessment of this book certainly doesn't need to."
— On Catch-22

Neeli Bendapudi's Picks
Ohio State University
"This funny, insightful book explores how to maintain creativity and originality -- the true sources of competitive advantage -- while operating within the confines of the hairball that is organizational bureaucracy."
— On Orbiting the Giant Hairball

Peter Arnold's Picks
Boston University
"It is simply the most understated of the great literary works of the past millennium. Whenever I feel like spending time on my eccentric side I read a prose-poem or three."
— On Paris Spleen

Raymond P. Fishe's Picks
University of Richmond
"This classic treatise on efficient markets is required reading for any investor impressed with his or her own or someone else's stock-picking ability."
— On A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Sheila M. Puffer's Picks
Northeastern University
"David Granick's work provides in-depth insights into the professional and personal characteristics of this industrial elite, as well as the structure and operations of major Soviet industries and their ruling bureaucracies."
— On The Red Executive

Stan Liebowitz's Picks
University of Texas at Dallas
"It shows that the undergraduates don't have anything on the faculty when it comes to boorish behavior."
— On Straight Man

Suchi Chandran's Picks
Boston University
"For anyone interested in business, this is one book that is hard to ignore."
— On Competitive Advantage

William J. Kehoe's Picks
University of Virginia
"This book is a practical, straightforward, easy-to-use guide for framing, analyzing, and solving complex problems based on the McKinsey & Co.'s approach."
— On The McKinsey Mind