Optional Reading List

Optional

Reading List

From time to time, admitted students ask us for recommended readings in preparation for a MBA or Master program at IE Business School. While
we insist that no prior reading is required, please find below a list of recommendations that various IE Faculty members consider particularly
insightful, useful, entertaining and readable - just the kind of thing you may want to add to your leisure reading list!

David B. Allen

Professor of Strategy

Francisco Navarro

Professor of Cost Accounting and
Management Control

Monika Hamori

Pro fe s s o r o f H u m a n R e s o u rce s
Management

David Bach

Professor of Strategy

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Jared Diamond,

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

(Penguin Books)

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Robert Heilbroner and William Milberg,

The Making of Economic Society

(Prentice Hall)

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W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne,

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create

Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

(HBS Press)

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Pankaj Ghemawat,

Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World

Where Differences Still Matter

(HBS Press)

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Clayton M. Christensen,

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies

Cause Great Firms to Fail

(HBS Press)

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Clayton M. Christensen,

Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth,

Seeing What's

Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

(HBS Press)

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Henry Chesbrough,

Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation

Landscape

(HBS Press)

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Eric von Hippel,

Democratizing Innovation

(MIT Press)

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James N. Citrin and Richard A. Smith,

The 5 patterns of extraordinary careers

(Crowne Business Books)

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Malcolm Gladwell,

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

(Little Brown)

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Fareed Zakaria,

The Future of Freedom

(W. W. Norton & Co.)

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David Vogel,

The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social

Responsibility

(Brookings Institution)

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in

Life and in the Markets

(Penguin Books)

Pablo Martin de Holan

Professor of Entrepreneurial
Management

Bill Carney

Professor of Marketing

Julio Gómez-Pomar

Professor of Negotiation

Michael Aldous

Associate Director of Communications

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Henry Mintzberg et al,

Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of

Strategic Management

(Free Press)

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Richard T. Pascale,

Managing on the Edge

(Touchstone Simon & Shuster)

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Marc Granovetter,

Society and Economy: The Social Construction of Economic

Institutions

(Harvard University Press)

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Adam Smith,

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

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Karl Marx,

Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

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Max Weber,

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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A.A. Berle and G. C. Means,

The Modern Corporation and Private Property

(Macmillan)

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Joseph A. Schumpeter,

The Theory of Economic Development

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Jay M. Shafritz and J. Steven Ott,

Classics of Organization Theory (Thompson

Learning)

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C.K. Prahalad,

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty

Through Profits

(Wharton School Publishing)

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Kenichi Ohmae,

The Next Global Stage: The Challenges and Opportunities in

Our Borderless World

(Wharton School Publishing)

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Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi,

The Knowledge-creating Company: How

Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

(Oxford University

Press)

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Harry Beckwith,

Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

(Texere Publishing)

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Og Mandino,

The Greatest Salesman in the World

(Bantam USA)

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Julio Gómez-Pomar,

Teoria y Técnicas de Negociación (Editorial Ariel)

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Roy J Lewicki, Bruce Barry, David M Saunders,

Essentials of Negotiation

(McGraw-Hill)

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Michael Lewis,

Liar's Poker

(Hodder Paperbacks)

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Bryan Burrough and John Helyar,

Barbarians at the Gate: The fall of RJR Nabisco

(Arrow Books)

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Roger Lowenstein,

When Genius failed: The rise and fall of long term capital

management

(Fourth Estate)

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Robert Heilbroner,

The Wordly Philosophers

(Penguin Business)

Optional

Reading List