Digital Bookshelf

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

Is Your Work Worth It? How To Think About Meaningful Work 

Is Your Work Worth It? How To Think About Meaningful Work 

Jennifer Tosti-Kharas and Christopher Wong Michaelson

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.  

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism 

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism 

Marjorie N. Feld

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. 

Extreme Entrepreneurship Field Guide and How to Get an “A” in Business Law 

Extreme Entrepreneurship Field Guide and How to Get an “A” in Business Law 

Adam J. Sulkowski

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.  

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.  

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.

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.