Edited by Margie Kelley

The Book of Esports: The Definitive Guide to Competitive Video Games
by William Collis (MBA 2011)
RosettaBooks
Almost overnight, esports—or competitive video games—have exploded into the largest entertainment and sporting phenomenon in human history. Whether you are a lifelong gamer, a curious Fortnite parent, or a businessperson seeking to understand the marketing opportunities of this multibillion-dollar phenomenon, The Book of Esports charts the rise of this exciting new industry, crafting a comprehensive overview of esports and its implications for human competition—and even the future of humanity itself. Featuring select interviews from the biggest names in the industry, The Book of Esports weaves tales of trust, betrayal, and superhuman reflexes into predictive frameworks, explaining exactly why the industry looks the way it does, and how all this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs.

Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World
by James Ellman (MBA 1994)
Rowman & Littlefield
The world is warming, our portfolios will have to adapt, and the stocks we own can help shape our future. In this book, James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As the climate changes, investors will need to understand which are the best-positioned market sectors and stocks as well as those to avoid. Hot Stocks provides a roadmap detailing how to invest in this new reality, and evaluates the many ways global warming will affect profit flows in the economy.

Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics
by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986)
The MIT Press
Most people have a strong sense of right and wrong, and many of us are not reluctant to argue with someone who disagrees. But when we take an unyielding stand on something we regard as an eternal truth, we forget that ethics evolve over time. What was once broadly acceptable is now completely unacceptable. For example, burning heretics is no longer considered a just punishment. Child marriage is not applauded as a family value. Many shifts in the right vs. wrong pendulum are affected by advances in technology. From the TED stage to the page, Juan Enriquez, author of As the Future Catches You and Evolving Ourselves, presents a lively and engaging guide to ethics in a technological age.

Not the Seasons I Expected: A Fan's Memoir
by Blant Hurt (MBA 1991)
Fairbourne Publishing
When it comes to college football, there are fans and there are fanatics.

Destined by geography and family tradition to latch onto the Arkansas Razorbacks, Blant Hurt is of the second type. Like most devotees, he was captivated by his love of his team at an early age. But unlike more casual fans, Hurt found himself attaching what some might call “outsize life importance” to the fortunes of the Razorbacks—a team that, as the seasons progressed, provided more downs than ups. In this remarkably candid, funny, and introspective memoir, Hurt recounts his half-century as the most zealous of college football fans. Beginning with the so-called Game of the Century when he was 9, he tells how this enduring passion has colored his relationships with his family and friends, shaped his romances, and, for better or worse, marked every era of his life—indeed, marked his sense of life itself. Not the Seasons I Expected is that rare sports book that focuses on the hopes and dreams of the people in the bleachers, rather than the ones on the playing field. As such, it’s sure to speak to delirious/heartbroken fans everywhere.

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
by E. Dolores Johnson (MBA 1972)
Lawrence Hill Books
Say I’m Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and transformation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo, New York. When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she searched her father’s black genealogy. But in the process, Johnson suddenly realized that her mother’s whole white family was—and always had been—missing. When she began to pry, her mother’s 36-year-old secret spilled out. Her mother had simply vanished from Indiana, evading an FBI and police search that had ended with the conclusion that she had been the victim of foul play.

Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur
by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003)
HarperCollins Leadership
With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, female founders receiving only 2.2 percent of US venture capital, and the continued presence of sexual harassment and double standards, the gender gap continues to hinder the advancement of women in the professional world. In Digital Goddess, Victoria Montgomery-Brown shares her story in an entertaining and educational light. Told from the perspective of a female entrepreneur, this book unpacks all the hurdles other female founders may face in their own journey to the top. It’s about dealing with the way things are, even when you don’t like it, and being yourself, even when it seems like a drawback. Digital Goddess is a story for entrepreneurial women at any stage of life who want to know what it actuallytakes to build a business in a world that’s not always fair, predictable, or politically correct.

Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs (Includes Valuation Models + Online Course) 3rd Edition
by Joshua Rosenbaum (MBA 2001), and Joshua Pearl
Wiley Finance
In the constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, 3rd Edition is a highly accessible and authoritative book that explains how to perform the valuation work and financial analysis at the core of Wall Street—comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, LBO, M&A analysis, and now—IPO analytics and valuation. Using a step-by-step, how-to approach for each methodology, the authors build a chronological knowledge base and define key terms, financial concepts, and processes. This new edition reflects valuable contributions from Nasdaq and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, plus access to the online valuation models and course.

The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros: Five Steps for Picking Stocks (Little Books. Big Profits) Kindle Edition
by Joshua Pearl and Joshua Rosenbaum (MBA 2001)
Wiley
Stock investing is more prevalent than ever, whether directly or indirectly through brokerage accounts, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, or retirement plans. Despite this, the vast majority of individual investors have no training in how to pick stocks. The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros aims be a truly accessible, easy-to-understand resource available to help them. Using real-world examples and actual Wall Street models used by the pros, the authors teach you how to pick stocks in a highly accessible, step-by-step manner.

China & Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities Across Eurasia
edited by Marijk van der Wende, William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration,
Nian Cai Liu, Simon Marginson
Oxford University Press
The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a field increasingly built on international cooperation and the free movement of students, academics, knowledge, and ideas. Meanwhile, China has announced its plans for a “New Silk Road” (NSR) and is developing its higher education and research systems at speed. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe, China, the US, Russia, and Australia investigate how academic mobility and cooperation is taking shape along the New Silk Road and what difference it will make, if any, in the global higher education landscape.

Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Destiny
by Deborah L. Spar, MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Business Administration
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our lives and emotions with the machines we have created? In Work Mate Marry Love, HBS professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so again in the future. Steering clear of both techno-euphoria and alarmism, Spar offers a bold and inclusive vision of how our lives might be changed for the better.

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