Edited by Margie Kelley

Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time
By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985)
Sophia Institute Press
In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of Western art, interpreted through a lens of profound Christian faith―appropriately so since, in Auth’s view, much of Western art expresses humanity’s search for God. In this beautifully illustrated book, drawn largely from works on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, you will experience the ups and downs of humanity’s determined quest. Auth will transport you in his spiritual time machine from Egypt’s Old Kingdom, through Greece and Rome, to medieval Europe; from the age of the Renaissance, through the Ages of Exploration and Enlightenment; and from the rise of atheism in the late 1800s to the seeds of a spiritual rebirth in the modern era. Through the works of artists such as Raphael, Duccio, Rembrandt, Monet, and Picasso, you will discover how various themes and motifs of man’s struggle to find God occur, morph, fade, and then reoccur centuries later.

Family Caregivers: An Emotional Survival Guide
By Connie Baher (MBA 1980)
Independently Published
Told through the voices of family caregivers and counselors, this guide gives you straight talk and wise words that will help you make your way through the toughest—and possibly most rewarding—job you’ll ever have. If you’re caring for a parent, spouse, or friend over the long haul, this book is your essential companion, from beginnings, through the ups and downs, to farewells. You’ll have the support of caregivers who are walking your path, and the inspiring wisdom of counselors—hospice chaplains, social workers, and others. Chapters on guilt, anger, running on empty, and siblings speak to what it’s really like to be a caregiver. You’ll find ways to ground yourself, sustain yourself day after day, and learn how to deal with slow grief. You aren’t alone. Family Caregivers: An Emotional Survival Guide is a deep dive into the heart of caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers.

The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain
By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames
Oneworld Publications
As chair of the UK’s task force charged with developing an effective COVID-19 vaccine, Kate Bingham was told in April 2020 that the likelihood of success was 15 percent at best. But by December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended, and we can finally live with COVID. What lies behind this staggering success story? From a cottage miles away from Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus—and her daughter’s exams. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project, but perseverance paid off. Catapulted into a national crisis, Bingham’s eclectic team secured the first vaccine doses administered in the West, and saved thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. In The Long Shot, Bingham shares an insider’s view into how the Vaccine Task Force beat the odds, and delivered a scientific miracle.

I Did It: The Largest Woman-Run Ponzi Scheme in American History
By Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry (MBA 1976)
Waterside Productions
I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in American history. This real-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds, egomaniacs, and small-time crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing. Gina was the Penn and Teller of misdirection, acting with caring behavior to other people (while bilking her investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors.

Corporate and Family Governance: The Two Disciplines That Carry Family Businesses Across Generations
By Christos Christou (MBA 1987)
Clink Street Publishing
Corporate governance regulates not only interactions between shareholders, management, and oversight bodies such as boards of directors, but also ensures appropriate checks and balances can preserve and enhance the viability of any business, including any family-owned business. Family governance regulates the interactions between a family-owned business and the family owning the business, as well as between the members of the owning family. When both are present and functioning well, the prospects of longevity for the family business and the preservation of the ownership of the business in the family are both enhanced. When one or both disciplines are absent or not functioning well, these prospects are undermined. So, Corporate and Family Governance are necessary conditions for the continued viability of a family-owned business and the continued family ownership of the business across multiple generations.

A More Just Future
By Dolly Chugh (MBA 1994; PHDOB 2006)
Atria Books
The racial fault lines of our country have been revealed in stark detail as our national news cycle is flooded with stories about the past. If you are just now learning about the massacre in Tulsa, the killing of Native American children in compulsory “residential schools” designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today’s inequalities were sown in events in the past such as these. Today’s challenges began centuries ago and have deepened and widened over time. To take the path to a more just future, we must not ignore the damage but see it through others’ eyes, bear witness to it, and uncover its origins. As historians share these truths, we will need psychologists to help us navigate the shame, guilt, disbelief, and resistance many of us feel. Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor of social psychology and author of The Person You Mean to Be, gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country. Through heartrending personal histories and practical advice, Chugh invites us to dismantle the systems built by our forbearers and work toward a more just future.

Marketing Alternative Investments: A Comprehensive Guide to Fundraising and Investor Relations for Private Equity and Hedge Funds
By Hemali Dassani (MBA 1999) and Nandu Kuppuswamy
McGraw Hill
Investment funds with great performance and potential often fail for one simple reason―the enormous challenge for investor relations and fundraising professionals to raise the necessary capital to make the fund profitable. Marketing Alternative Investments builds on the experiential wisdom and best practices from many leaders in the industry and provides a comprehensive look at investor-centric marketing and fundraising strategy. Whether you work in hedge funds, private equity, or are aspiring to be part of one, you’ll gain invaluable insights into understanding investors and the investment landscape to create a successful marketing campaign. Effective fundraising and investor relations is key to the growth of alternative investments. This thorough guide delivers the information, insight, tools, and best practices for strategically marketing alternative investments.

Figuring It Out: Sixty Years of Answering Investors’ Important Questions
By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963)
Wiley
In Figuring It Out, world-renowned investing and finance guru Charles Ellis delivers a robust collection of incisive essays on an array of perennial and contemporary investing issues, from the rise and fall of performance investing to a compilation of essential investing guidelines. In this book, you’ll also find eye-opening discussions of: whether bonds are an appropriate investment vehicle for long-term investors; the costs of excessive liquidity in the typical portfolio; and the characteristics of successful investment firms, and how to spot them. Ellis draws on his long distinguished career in client services in the financial markets to provide common-sense and accessible advice to anyone with an interest in maximizing their investment returns over the long haul.

Inside Vanguard
By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963)
McGraw Hill
One of the world’s largest and most trusted investing institutions, Vanguard serves over 30 million clients, manages more than eight trillion dollars, and is an influential industry disruptor. Now, Charles Ellis reveals the story behind Vanguard’s rise to the top of the investing world. Provided unprecedented access to Vanguard’s leaders, Ellis explains why Jack Bogle started Vanguard and how he and his successors grew it into an investment industry disrupter that became the global leader. Ellis includes in-depth interviews with the executives and key leaders of Vanguard, clear takeaways and lessons from their experiences, a primer on ETFs, and Jack Brennan’s Leadership Principles. From the emergence of index funds to the success of exchange-traded funds, Inside Vanguard is a near-Shakespearian drama of individual human struggle and triumph.

Divestitures: Creating Value Through Strategy, Structure, and Implementation
By Emilie R. Feldman (MBA 2007 / DBA 2010)
McGraw Hill
Divestitures are among the hottest transactional structures today, but how much do you know about them? With this book, Wharton Professor Emilie R. Feldman provides a comprehensive primer on what strategic objectives divestitures can achieve, which businesses they typically involve, what structures companies can choose from, and how to implement divestitures to maximize financial benefits. Organized into sections dedicated to strategy, structure, and implementation, this book is for executives, board members, transactional advisors, educators, and others looking to increase corporate value through smart, strategic divestitures. It fills major gaps in the professional and academic markets, providing a rigorous, research-based treatment of this important strategic tool.

Red Chaos (The Red Hotel)
By Ed Fuller (AMP 101, 1987) and Gary Grossman
Beaufort Books
Arctic ice is melting, the waters are warming, and Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov is one step closer to monopolizing the oil industry and funding his expansionism plans past Ukraine and Latvia. Russian-backed attacks have shut down the Suez Canal and other key shipping routes, making it nearly impossible for the West and the Middle East to transport oil. With nothing less than oil futures and the global economy at stake, one man slips out of the shadows to stop Gorshkov’s maniacal plans: Dan Reilly, a freelance State Department and CIA consultant. In his attempts, Reilly is drawn into a web of intrigue 12 years in the making, involving the current American president, a United States senator, a Chinese businessman, and the death of a young girl. How these seemingly unrelated elements have a profound impact on Russia’s far-reaching plans is what makes Red Chaos a thriller to be read like breaking news. This is the third novel in the acclaimed Red Hotel series by thriller masters Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman.

Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power
By Ian Rowe (MBA 1993)
Templeton Press
Every child in America deserves to know that a path to a successful life exists and that they have the power to follow it. But many never set foot on that path because they grow up hearing the message that systemic forces control their destinies, or that they are at fault for everything that has gone wrong in their lives. These children often come from difficult circumstances. Many are raised by young, single parents, live in disadvantaged neighborhoods, attend substandard schools, and lack the moral safeguards of religious and civic institutions. As a result, they can be dispirited into cycles of learned helplessness rather than inspired to pursue their own possibilities. Yet this phenomenon is not universal. Some children thrive where others do not. Why? Are there personal behaviors and institutional supports that have proven to make a difference in helping young people chart a course for their futures? Agency answers with a loud and clear “yes!” This book describes four pillars that can uplift every young person as they make the passage into adulthood: family, religion, education, and entrepreneurship. Author Ian Rowe calls the four pillars the FREE framework. With this framework in place, children are empowered to develop agency, which Rowe defines as the force of one’s free will, guided by moral discernment. Developing agency is the alternative to the debilitating blame-the-system and blame-the-victim narratives. It transcends our political differences and beckons all who dare to envision lives unshackled by present realities.

Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh
By William J. Miller, Jr. (PMD 56, 1988)
Lyons Press
Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh, when its technological innovations and wealth creation made it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel, food processing, and electricity, and the leaders of those industries—Carnegie, Frick, Heinz, and Westinghouse—are names we still know today. Amid this fevered atmosphere, Jamie Dalton, a recent Yale graduate and son of a corporate lawyer, must decide whether to accede to his father’s wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century, the Johnstown Flood, confirms his choice to be a journalist, and Jamie goes on to cover Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern European anarchist. Jamie struggles with balancing the access he has to Pittsburgh’s business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure the nation’s largest industry: steel.

A Day at the Ballpark and More Slice of Life Stories
By John Schwarz (MBA 1963)
Independently published
Like the author’s earlier book, Living Dangerously and Other Slice of Life Stories, the protagonists in A Day at the Ballpark came of age in post-World War II America. The book is rich in experiences and attitudes that prevailed over an 80-year span of life in America. Schwarz draws on subjects adapted from his life and long business career to bring the reader more tales of protagonists facing challenging life events. Some stories are set in the 1960s at Harvard Business School while others reflect suburban married life in the early 21st century. This book is a collection of easy-reading stories with some interesting life lessons, often from the same characters. The chapters are short and make for good bedside reading, or for a short airplane flight—as long as you are not the pilot.

Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
By Wendy K. Smith (PHDOB 2006) and Marianne W. Lewis
Harvard Business Review Press
Life is full of paradoxes. How can we each express our individuality while also being a team player? How do we balance work and life? How can we improve diversity while promoting opportunities for all? How can we manage the core business while innovating for the future? For many of us, these competing and interwoven demands are a source of conflict. Since our brains love to make either-or choices, we choose one option over the other. We deal with the uncertainty by asserting certainty. There’s a better way. In Both/And Thinking, authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis help readers cope with multiple, knotted tensions at the same time. Drawing from more than 20 years of pioneering research, they provide tools and lessons for transforming these tensions into opportunities for innovation and personal growth. Filled with practical advice and fascinating stories—including firsthand tales from IBM, LEGO, and Unilever, as well as from startups, nonprofits, and even an inn at one of the four corners of the world—Both/And Thinking will change the way you approach your most vexing problems.
Both/And Thinking is featured in Ink: Comfort in Discomfort.

The Everyman’s Guide to Ethernet/IP Network Design
By John S. Rinaldi and Gary Workman (MBA 1982)
Independently Published
In this one-of-a-kind book, John Rinaldi and Gary Workman provide a practical guide to the technologies, techniques, and practices for designing and implementing high performing EtherNet/IP control networks. There are many web sites, papers, books and other resources for learning the protocol, but there is no other resource that addresses the technologies and strategies that control engineers should consider for implementing practical, optimized and reliable ethernet/IP control networks on the factory floor. In this unique book, you’ll find the 12 specific strategies Gary Workman used at GM, and a no-holds barred, behind-the-scenes look at how GM struggled to move from DeviceNet to EtherNet/IP. You’ll learn much from Gary’s war stories of overcoming technical limitations, solving redundancy issues, and his often heated, door-slamming, shouting matches with the GM IT department over factory floor security.

George Yeo: Musings – Series One
By George Yeo (MBA 1985) and Tai Ho Woon
World Scientific Publishing
Over sessions that lasted two to three hours each, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap. Speaking from notes, he began with himself and his hope for Singapore, and then spanned over a wide range of subjects—from the importance of human diversity and Singapore’s reflection within itself of the world, to history, politics, economics, philosophy, taijigong and religion. He gives his views on India, China, ASEAN, Europe, the US and other parts of the world, and how Singapore’s history and destiny are connected to all of them. The style is conversational and anecdotal. George Yeo: Musings is exactly that—musings. There is no grand theory. He does not expect all of his reflections to be of interest to everyone, but he hopes that everyone will find something of interest. This is the first of a three-part series.

Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop
By Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration
Princeton University Press
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of complicit business partners, employees, investors, news organizations, and others. And, whether we’re aware of it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, HBS professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses, organizations, communities, politics, and more. Complicit tells compelling stories of those who enabled the Theranos and WeWork scandals, the opioid crisis, the sexual abuse that led to the #MeToo movement, and the January 6th U.S. Capitol attack. The book describes seven different behavioral profiles that can lead to complicity in wrongdoing, ranging from true partners to those who unknowingly benefit from systemic privilege, including white privilege, and it tells the story of Bazerman’s own brushes with complicity. Complicit offers concrete and detailed solutions, describing how individuals, leaders, and organizations can more effectively prevent complicity. By challenging the notion that a few bad apples are responsible for society’s ills, Complicit implicates us all―and offers a path to creating a more ethical world.

True North: Leading Authentically in Today's Workplace, Emerging Leader Edition
By Bill George (MBA 1966), Professor of Management Practice, Emeritus and Zach Clayton (MBA 2009)
John Wiley & Sons
In True North: Emerging Leaders Edition, renowned leadership expert Bill George and Millennial tech entrepreneur Zach Clayton issue the challenge to emerging leaders—from Gen X to Millennials and Gen Z—to lead their organizations authentically through never-ending crises to make this world a better place for everyone. The Emerging Leader Edition is filled with stories from successful leaders and offers concrete suggestions for becoming an authentic leader, equipped to lead inclusively with moral clarity through challenges and crises; cultivating introspection to ground yourself with self-awareness, live your values, and use your unique strengths; integrating all aspects of your life—including who you are at home, at work, and in the community; understanding how Millennials are leading more effectively in today’s world; being an inclusive leader prepared to take on stakeholder challenges; and knowing when—and how—to speak out on today’s complex public issues. The Emerging Leader Edition of True North is a classic guide for every current and aspiring leader to reach their full, authentic potential.

Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World
By George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration
Harper Collins Leadership
Are purpose and profit in conflict, or can both be achieved simultaneously with the right mindset and tools? What are the forces that are reshaping the relationship between the two? What can we all do to strengthen the relationship between purpose and profit as entrepreneurs, managers, employees, consumers, and investors? Backed by cutting-edge research, Purpose and Profit provides answers to these fundamental questions that are increasingly defining the business landscape all around the world. Professor George Serafeim takes readers on a research-driven journey to understand how and why environmental and social issues are becoming increasingly relevant for organizations worldwide; the ways that companies can design and implement strategies that generate greater impact; the six archetypes of value creation enabled by these new trends; the role of investors in driving greater recognition of ESG issues; and how we can all look at the choices we make and careers we pursue in a way that maximizes purpose and profit in our own lives.

Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions
By Leo R. Tsao, Daniel S. Kahn, and Eugene F. Soltes, the McLean Family Professor of Business Administration
Aspen Publishing
Over the past two decades, corporate criminal liability has developed into one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas of legal practice. The growth of corporate criminal enforcement has correlated with a broad shift in how the government investigates and resolves corporate criminal violations. As a result, the practice of investigating, prosecuting, and resolving corporate criminal cases has many significant differences from other areas of criminal or civil law. Notably, much of corporate criminal practice occurs outside of the formal judicial system; nearly all Department of Justice (DOJ) corporate criminal matters are resolved through negotiated settlements, and very few cases involve court proceedings or go to trial. In this book, the authors open a window into all aspects of corporate criminal investigations and prosecutions for students and practitioners.

The Domonique Foxworth Show
This new ESPN podcast features former NFL cornerback Domonique Foxworth (MBA 2015), bringing his unique perspectives on football, the personalities surrounding it, and anything else he finds interesting. Listeners will also hear from Foxworth’s expansive list of friends and colleagues across the sports industry as well as a full lineup of special guests and surprises. All episodes of The Domonique Foxworth Show are available online at ESPN.com, the ESPN NFL YouTube channel, and on all podcast distribution platforms.

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