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Check out the latest good reads published by Babson faculty and staff:

Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking 

Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking 

Sebastian Fixson, Jochen Schweitzer, and Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini (editors)

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.

The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak 

The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak 

Elizabeth Swanson and Alexandra S. Moore (editors)

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.  

Omnicide, Volume II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception 

Omnicide, Volume II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception 

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

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.  

Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill

Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill

Beth Wynstra

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.

The Hour After Happy Hour 

The Hour After Happy Hour 

Mary O’Donoghue

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.  

The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do about It

The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do about It

Rob Cross and Karen Dillon

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.

All in on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence 

All in on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence 

Thomas Davenport and Nitin Mittal

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.  

Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work

Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work

Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston

Tina Opie, associate professor of management at Babson, and co-author Dr. Beth Livingston examine solutions for driving gender and racial equity in organizations, and the book invites everyone to join the movement to advance equity for all. Read more on Babson Thought & Action. Harvard Business Review Press, 2022.

Night, Volume II: A Philosophy of the Last World 

Night, Volume II: A Philosophy of the Last World 

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh expands on the boundaries of the book’s precursor, Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark, by presenting a series of new conceptual territories, figures, sources, images, and imaginative possibilities. Zero Books, 2022.  

Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration

Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration

Thomas Davenport and Steven Miller

Thomas Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, and co-author Steven Miller offer detailed, real-world case studies of AI-augmented jobs to show that AI in the workplace is not the stuff of futuristic speculation but is happening now to many companies and workers. MIT Press, 2022. 

Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Compiled by Laurie Matheson; introduction by Sandra Jean Graham

Professor Sandra Jean Graham wrote the introduction and contributed a chapter in this volume that collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the Music in American Life book series. University of Illinois Press, 2022

Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative

Derivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative

Virginia Newhall Rademacher

Virginia (Jenny) Rademacher, professor of Hispanic literature and culture, explores the surge in biofiction in Spain and globally, relating literary expression to concepts such as circumstantiality, derivatives, speculation, and game studies. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

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