Career & Success

Eight Books for Your Summer Reading List

Recommendations from the Stanford GSB community.

June 20, 2016

| by Natalie White

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Graduates of our Stanford MBA, Ignite, and executive programs share their favorite business books:

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

Alex Lofton (MBA ’15), founder of Landed Inc.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t

by Jim Collins

Nick Karnaze (Stanford Ignite ’15), CEO of stubble & ‘stache

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

David Cooper (Stanford Ignite ’14), cofounder and president of Karakoram Group

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

David Cooper (Stanford Ignite ’14), cofounder and president of Karakoram Group

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

David Cooper (Stanford Ignite ’14), cofounder and president of Karakoram Group

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

Andy Katz-Mayfield (MBA ’11), cofounder and co-CEO of Harry’s Inc.

Into Thin Air

by Jon Krakauer

Manoj Leelanivas (SEP ’06), president and CEO of Cyphort Inc.

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

by Daniel J. Levitin

Marcelo Camberos (MBA ’07), founder and CEO of ipsy

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