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Takeaways from Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño and Kazuo Ichijo’s Business Despite Borders
This book’s editors asked 29 leading academicians to address various reasons why business largely remains global, or “open” (i.e.,...
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Takeaways from Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson’s Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons
The three people who were the most centrally involved in attempting to mitigate the fallout of the financial crisis of 2008, perhaps with...
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Takeaways from Roy Williams and Vic Pressier’s Preparing Heirs by Peter Lorange
In this short book, authors Williams and Pressier share a series of practical suggestions for how to successfully transmit family wealth...
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Takeaways from Yvon Chouinard's Let My People Go Surfing by Peter Lorange
Striving for quarterly profits and short-term performance may often come in conflict with environmental and social aspirations, such as...
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Takeaways from Bradley Tusk's The Fixer – My Adventures Saving Start-ups from Death by Politics
Bradley Tusk’s The Fixer is a controversial book about the interplay between individuals and politics. As the title suggests, the book...
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Takeaways from David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth by Peter Lorange
For some time now, I have been inundated with extraordinarily negative environmental news – floods, draughts, storms, wildfires, … Also,...
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Takeaways from T. McCullough and K. Whitaker’s Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy
McCullough and Whitaker spent more than a year questioning wealthy individuals about their major concerns; as a result, they identified...
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Takeaways from George Magnus’s Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy by Peter Lorange
George Magnus is an associate at Oxford University’s China Centre, a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies,...
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Takeaways from Tim O’Reilly’s What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us and from K. F. Lee's AI
Software entrepreneur, Tim O´Reilly, and entrepreneurial academician, K. F. Lee, have written thought-provoking books on artificial...
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Takeaways from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and one of the world’s most influential thinkers in the field of...
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Takeaways from Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project - A Friendship That Changed the World
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman can be counted among the world’s more famous psychologists and modern thinkers. Their collaborative...
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Takeaways from Guy Spier's The Education of a Value Investor by Peter Lorange
Zurich-based investor and fund manager Guy Spier recently published The Education of a Value Investor. In this short, succinct book,...
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Book Review: T.R. Köhler's Understanding Cyber Risk - Protecting your Corporate Assets
In his new book, Thomas R. Köhler discusses the critically important issue of cyber risk and how corporations can mitigate this growing...
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Takeaways from Hans Rosling's Factfulness by Peter Lorange
Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness provides insights on how to handle ten common misconceptions that are pervasive in Western countries....
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Takeaways from Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography by Peter Lorange
This book discusses geopolitical challenges in 10 different parts of the world. Although published in 2016, Tim Marshall´s perspectives...
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Takeaways from Graham Allison's Destined for War by Peter Lorange
Graham Allison, the former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has written an insightful and thought-provoking book on the...
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Takeaways from Sam Zell´s Am I Being too Subtle? Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
This book, by Mr. Sam Zell, outlines this author’s key business principles, and also details some of his business dealings. Mr. Zell is a...
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Takeaways from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella´s Hit Refresh by Peter Lorange
Introduction This book is written by Satya Nadella, President and CEO of Microsoft. He took over as Microsoft’s 3rd President/CEO in...
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Takeaways from Muhammad Yunus´ A World of Three Zeros - A World of Social Engagement
The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, is from Bangladesh and is the founder of Grameen Bank, the central developer of the...
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Takeaways from Ray Dalio’s Management Principles by Peter Lorange
Ray Dalio is one of the most successful investors of our times. His firm, Bridgewater Associates, is the largest hedge fund in the world...
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