Holiday reads

14 December 2020 08:37

Holiday reads

DIG researchers book recommendations: Great books to read and happy Christmas!

Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening by SNAP Reaseach Group from Stanford University i Nature-journal (10. November 2020)

Why Business Model Innovation Could Be The Key To Getting Better Results by Christoph Zott, professor of entrepreneurship at IESE Business School

Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan H. Thomke, Harvard Business School Professor

Dawn of the new Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier, an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of contemporary classical music.

Nye forretningsmodeller i bank og finans: Muligheter og trusler (in Norwegian) by Magne Angelshaug, Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen and Tina Saebi, NHH (interesting for all service Industries, not only finance)

Reinventing Your Business Model by Mark W. Johnson, cofounder and partner of innovation consulting firm, Clayton M. Christensen, Professor at Harvard Business School and Henning Kagermann, Physiker und Manager

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter, veteran journalist

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Frey, economist and economic historian

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by Daniel Suskind, Fellow in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Karim R. Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at the Harvard Business School and Marco Iansiti, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Analytics of Life: Making Sense of Data Analytics, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence by Mert Damlapinar, VP of Marketing & E-Commerce

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw, American business historian and Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus at Harvard Business School

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LOOKING FOR MORE BOOKS TO READ FOR CHRISTMAS?  Check out the REVIEWS FROM DIG and THE HUB@NHH:

The Price of Peace

How Keynes came to realize that imperialism promoted inequality rather than spreading humanitarian values. See the review written by Tor W. Andreassen

A World Without Work

Will jobs for humans follow the same path that jobs for horses did in the early 20th century?

Competing in the Age of AI

Do you need to better understand how to manage, transform, grow and control your business in an area of virtually unbounded potential impact? Please read book review written by Professor Tor W. Andreassen.

Analytics of Life

Postdoc Le Quang’s book recommendation gives concrete ideas about how machine learning techniques and deep learning algorithms are applied in real-world situations.
Picture from the front cover of Prophet of Innovation

Prophet of Innovation

Having read this book, one sentence came to mind: While business leaders plan for eternal life, markets are a brutal destructor of firms!