World of Business Books: Recent Episodes

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David Merkel on Seeking Alpha has posted a review of Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street by Fran Hawthorne. From his review: "One of the things that the book gets right is the difficulty in...

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Download world_of_business_books_fran_hawthorne1.mp3 or use the mp3 on the right. In our latest podcast, Fran Hawthorne talks to us about her new book, PENSION DUMPING: The Reasons, The Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street just out this week from Bloomberg Press.

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FringeHog has a detailed and in-depth post on Daniel Pink's “The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Book You’ll Ever Need” So does Rohit Bhargava at Influential Marketing Blog. Pink explains why manga offers some important lessons for American...

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All Things Considered on NPR broadcast a fascinating interview yesterday with author Katie Smith Milway about her new children's book One Hen which tells the story of a boy in Ghana who borrows a few coins to buy a single...

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Today's New York Times features a review of The Second World by Parag Khanna which is just out this week. There are several business books coming out in the next few months on the rise of nations such as China,...

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BusinessWeek covers how the recent trend of magna (Japanese graphic novels) becoming very hot in Japan's business world is attempting to make its way to the U.S. -- most notably in Daniel Pink's forthcoming book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko:...

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More than a million free copies of Suze Orman's new book Women & Money were downloaded from Oprah's website in just 33 hours last week. Apparently, it has had a great impact on actual sales -- it's sitting at #...

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Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio are marketing dynamos. I've seen some great coverage of their new book The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear including a nice spot on the Today show. I came across this post on...

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If a publisher hasn't already approached New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin to write a book about management and leadership, I don't know what they are waiting for! Stories abound on how Coughlin--legendary for his tough-as-nails approach which alienated...

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Tom Wilson of Reuters reviews Billons of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours out today from Harvard Business School Press.