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Best Business Books 2007: s+b's Top Shelf

November 28, 2007

(originally published by Booz & Company)

Innovation
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
by Bill Buxton
(Morgan Kaufmann, 2007)

Strategy
Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
by William Duggan
(Columbia University Press, 2007)

Biotech
Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech
by Gary P. Pisano
(Harvard Business School Press, 2006)

Capitalism
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
by Thomas K. McCraw
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)

The Entrepreneurs
Typo: The Last American Typesetter, or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars
by David Silverman
(Soft Skull Press, 2007)

Behavioral Theory
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger
(Times Books, 2007)

Human Capital
Five Minds for the Future
by Howard Gardner
(Harvard Business School Press, 2007)

Biography
Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw
(Penguin Press, 2006)

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