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- April 5, 2021The novel In Bed We Cry had early insights into the lives of prosperous working women.
- March 31, 2021
Expansionists, brokers, and conveners
In her new book, Yale School of Management professor Marissa King explores the topographies of three network models and the networking styles of their builders. - March 29, 2021
Mutual respect
In her new book, Freelancers Union founder Sara Horowitz urges people to rely less on government and more on a powerful cooperative spirit. - March 17, 2021
What makes the rich steal?
In his novel The Embezzler, Louis Auchincloss delved into the true story of Richard Whitney, a patrician financier who lost it all. - March 15, 2021
Battling the bots
In his new book, Futureproof, Kevin Roose provides useful advice for humans on life amid rampant automation. - March 4, 2021
Bill Gates tackles climate change
In his new book, the Microsoft cofounder argues that doubling down on innovation can move the world closer to net-zero emissions. - March 2, 2021
Arguing your way to better strategy
In Making Great Strategy, Stanford b-school professors Jesper Sørensen and Glenn Carroll bridge the gap between abstract strategic visions and executable plans. - February 17, 2021
Detective story
Homicide, David Simon’s classic study of Baltimore’s detective squads, contains powerful management lessons. - February 10, 2021
A plan for saving democratic capitalism from itself
Economic systems must balance efficiency with resilience in order to survive and flourish. - February 3, 2021
Building a culture of learning at work
How leaders can create the psychological safety for people to constantly rethink what’s possible. - s+b BlogsJanuary 20, 2021
When fiction tries to change the facts on the ground
Friday, the Thirteenth, a classic 1907 novel by the muckraker and stock manipulator Thomas Lawson, reminds us that telling stories can weaponize resentment. - January 4, 2021
Survival of the fittest
In his new book, John Hudson, a survival instructor for the British military, offers lessons on how to get through the most challenging ordeals. - December 17, 2020
Is the gig up?
In her new book, Boston College professor Juliet Schor reports on the ways that the sharing economy has — and has not — lived up to its initial promise. - December 15, 2020
No, we can’t
In her new book, Can’t Even, Anne Helen Petersen lays out the immense challenges millennials face in gaining a foothold in the economy. - s+b BlogsDecember 14, 2020
Nice Work, and everyone can get it
David Lodge’s comic novel explores what business can learn from literature, and vice versa. - November 11, 2020
What people like you like
In his new book, MIT Sloan School research fellow Michael Schrage explores the powerful effects of recommendation engines and where they might lead. - November 9, 2020
Best Business Books 2020: Story time
In the 20th edition of strategy+business’s Best Business Books section, our writers identify the three most compelling reads in seven genres. - November 9, 2020
Best Business Books 2020: Technology & innovation
Failure and the root of invention - November 9, 2020
Best Business Books 2020: s+b’s Top Shelf
Our picks for the best business books of 2020 in seven categories. - November 9, 2020
Top shelf picks: Best Business Books 2020
Writers at strategy+business pick the year’s best books in seven categories. - s+b BlogsNovember 3, 2020
Revisiting Atlas Shrugged
The iconic novel, which celebrates risk-taking and self-interest, has important lessons for current debates surrounding inequality and liberty. - s+b BlogsOctober 19, 2020
The little engine that could
The novel The Magnificent Ambersons reveals the dangers of complacency in the face of transformative new technologies. - October 16, 2020
Uncertainty on the menu
University College London professor Vaughn Tan offers lessons in innovation from the world of high cuisine. - October 15, 2020
A billion points of light
In his new book, journalist Matthew Yglesias argues that the U.S. should strive to triple its population. - October 5, 2020
Creating a powerful ecosystem to sustain competitiveness
How companies come together to create value when disruption leads to new industry sectors. - September 16, 2020
Connecting the dots in an uncertain world
NYU’s Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events. - s+b BlogsSeptember 10, 2020
A CEO who won’t take the gloves off
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral measures the gulf between a careful business leader and his radical daughter. - August 31, 2020
Delivering on your promises
In The Ends Game, professors Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg explain how companies can help their customers meet goals by rewriting the rules of commerce. - August 19, 2020
What if every job seeker got a living-wage job?
Economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva demolishes the idea that there is an optimal rate of unemployment and makes a timely case for a national job guarantee. - August 14, 2020
Mutiny amid the bounty
What captains of industry can learn from captains in the great age of sail. - August 11, 2020
The sinking fortunes of the shipping box
In his new book, journalist and historian Marc Levinson describes the limits of long supply chains and the ways in which new trade routes are forming. - July 27, 2020
How fiction can help us imagine the future
In an age of big data, artificial intelligence, and continual forecasting, fiction can help us navigate uncertainty by opening our eyes to a wide range of scenarios. - s+b BlogsJuly 23, 2020
Management lessons of The True Believer
A 20th-century working-class philosopher has a lot to teach modern workers — and managers — about finding meaning in life, and on the job. - July 6, 2020
Fit-for-context leadership
Hult International Business School professor Amit Mukherjee argues that new leadership practices are needed for a digital era. - s+b BlogsJune 26, 2020
A dramatic example of adopting best practices
George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play Major Barbara, the best stage drama written about business, has lessons that resonate with today’s audiences. - June 12, 2020
Restoring faith in humanity?
In his new book, historian Rutger Bregman argues that people are actually fundamentally good. - June 2, 2020
Making experiments pay
In The Power of Experiments, Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman provide an overview of the applications, promise, and perils of corporate experimentation. - s+b BlogsMay 27, 2020
The general wisdom of Ulysses S. Grant
A serial failure up until the Civil War, Grant had a talent for leadership that secured the Union. His strategy and style still offer valuable lessons for today’s executives. - May 26, 2020
The business of America, in a nutshell
In his new book, American Business History, Walter A. Friedman offers a highly concise history of free enterprise in the United States. - s+b BlogsMay 11, 2020
No success without succession
The 1952 novel Executive Suite tells us what it takes to fill the shoes of an icon. - s+b BlogsApril 27, 2020
Tales of the original Industrial Revolution
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Victorian-era novel North and South has a great deal to teach us about the enduring tensions between progress and prosperity, industry and labor, and rural and urban life. - April 15, 2020
Too much work, too little time
In the new book Overload, professors Erin L. Kelly and Phyllis Moen report the results of a rigorous five-year field experiment in giving employees more control over their jobs.
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