Digital Bookshelf

Thomas H. Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, and his co-authors offer a comprehensive look into the role of citizen developers―business domain experts who are driving IT-enabled innovation using technology previously reserved for professional technologists. Wiley, 2024.  

Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, the Camilla Latino Spinelli Endowed Term Chair and Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Christopher Wong Michaelson investigate the purpose of work and its value in our lives, combining inspiring and harrowing stories of real people to clarify what our work can contribute to society. PublicAffairs, 2024.  

Associate Professor of Practice Peter Cohan explains how generative AI works and how much economic value it could create and will map out the industry value network, concluding with a section on what investors and business leaders should do to make an informed decision on where to place their bets. Apress, 2024.  

Professor Marjorie N. Feld shows that today’s vociferous arguments among American Jews over Israel and Zionism are but the newest chapter in a fraught history that stretches from the 19th century, drawing on rich archival research and examining wide-ranging intellectual currents. NYU Press, 2024. 

In a companion book to Extreme Entrepreneurship: Inspiring Life and Business Lessons from Entrepreneurs and Startups around the World, Professor Adam Sulkowski provides a checklist to spotting and analyzing issues in startup scenarios and enables users to memorialize lessons for their own application in real life. Independently published, 2023.  

Professor Sebastian Fixson and his co-editors present examples of creative organizations across industries and geographies for innovators interested in learning how design has transformed organizations while also gaining a current perspective on what others are doing in their field. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Elizabeth Swanson P’19, the Joyce H’22 and Andy Mandell ’61 Endowed Professor of Literature and Human Rights, and co-editor Alexandra Moore present an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo as self-expression and protest, juxtaposing detainee artist Moath al-Alwi’s testimony and artwork with essays. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.  

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East, fuses conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics in the infernal heat of the desert, to draw the cycle of Omnicide to a close with a philosophy of doom, deception, and the game. MIT Press, 2023.  

Beth Wynstra, associate professor of English, examines the traditions and gender roles that underscored marital life in the early 20th century with a bold and timely approach to the plays of Eugene O’Neill with its attention to the engagements, weddings, and marriages. University of Iowa Press, 2023.

Written over the course of 10 years, Professor of English Mary O’Donoghue offers stories that reach into the wounds of immigration, transit, and exile. Here are modern, surreal dilemmas of rootlessness and failed returns, and people in their middle years struggling to be considered, let alone understood. Stinging Fly Press, 2023.  

Rob Cross, the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson, and co-author Karen Dillon explain the science behind the phenomenon of microstress and share the secrets of high achievers to build resilience against microstress and find purpose. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023.

Thomas Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, and Deloitte’s Nitin Mittal look at artificial intelligence at its cutting edge and provide leaders and their teams with the information they need to help their own companies take AI to the next level. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023.