PALO ALTO, Calif.–Don’t have the budget or the time to attend Stanford’s Business School and obtain an MBA? Or, already have yours and looking to continue your ongoing education?
The school’s graduates have put together a list of books they recommend business executives read this summer to feed their brains, as assembled by Inc. Magazine:
Here are their recommendations:
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur -- recommended by Alex Lofton, founder of Landed Inc.
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don't by Jim Collins -- recommended by Nick Karnaze, CEO of stubble & 'stache
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau -- recommended by David Cooper, co-founder and president of Karakoram Group
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman -- recommended by David Cooper
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius -- recommended by David Cooper
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz -- recommended by Andy Katz-Mayfield, co-founder and co-CEO of Harry's Inc.
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer -- by Manoj Leelanivas, president and CEO of Cyphort Inc.
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin -- recommended by Marcelo Camberos, founder and CEO of ipso.