Digital Bookshelf

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

Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion

Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion

Peter S. Cohan

Discover how to scale a business the smart way by learning the four stages of scaling from Peter S. Cohan, a lecturer of strategy and entrepreneurship in the Management Division. Apress, 2019

High Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship: Programs, Policies and Practices

High Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship: Programs, Policies and Practices

Amanda Bullough, Diana M. Hechavarria, Candida G. Brush, and Linda E. F. Edelman (editors)

F. W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship Candida G. Brush and her co-authors offer extensive research around the world that examines the high-growth potential of women entrepreneurs. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019

The Global Phenomenon of Family-Owned or Managed Universities

The Global Phenomenon of Family-Owned or Managed Universities

Philip G. Altbach, Edward Choi, Mathew R. Allen, and Hans de Wit (editors)

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Matthew R. Allen and his co-authors examine issues of governance, finances, and more related to the large number of family-owned or managed universities. Brill, 2019

The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

Raj Sisodia and Michael J. Gelb

F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business Raj Sisodia and co-author Michael J. Gelb explore how corporations can become healing forces in society. Harper Collins Leadership, 2019

Go-To-Market Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs: Creating and Exploring Success

Go-To-Market Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs: Creating and Exploring Success

Victoria L. Crittenden (editor)

Professor of Marketing Victoria L. Crittenden and a cast of global contributors examine the power, the challenges, and the inspiration of women entrepreneurship. Emerald Publishing, Ltd., 2019

Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths Through Work and Motherhood

Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths Through Work and Motherhood

Jamie Ladge and Danna Greenberg

This resource for working mothers from Babson Professor Danna Greenberg and alumna Jamie Ladge ’95 shows how having a family is an asset to managing life’s unknowns.
Oxford University Press, 2019

Seminal Ideas for the Next Twenty Five Years

Seminal Ideas for the Next Twenty Five Years

Jerome A. Katz and Andrew C. Corbett (editors)

Andrew C. Corbett, the Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division, and Jerome A. Katz examine influential contributions to the series Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019

Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium

Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh offers a fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation. MIT Press and Urbanomic, 2019

Casting Deep Shade

Casting Deep Shade

C.D. Wright with photographs by Denny Moers

Arts & Humanities Adjunct Lecturer Denny Moers illustrates this book with dramatic photographs of beech trees that amplify C.D. Wright’s powerful words, written in prosimetric style. Copper Canyon Press, 2019

Leading a Surgical Revolution: The AO Foundation—Social Entrepreneurs in the Treatment of Bone Trauma

Leading a Surgical Revolution: The AO Foundation—Social Entrepreneurs in the Treatment of Bone Trauma

Jean-Pierre Jeannet

Professor emeritus Jean-Pierre Jeannet tells the story of the AO Foundation, which pioneered a surgical bone trauma treatment and is an outstanding example of social entrepreneurship. Springer, 2019