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Have a
Stern
Summer!
Stern Undergraduate
Suggested Summer Reading List
Recommended by the Stern Undergraduate
Faculty Advisers
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Professor Joseph Foudy, Economics, Recommends:
Knee, Jonathan A. The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall
Street. Oxford UP, 2006.
Lewis, Michael. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. Norton, 2010.
Sorkin, Andrew Ross. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington
Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves. Penguin, 2009.
Professor Al Lieberman, Entertainment, Media and Technology, Recommends:
Cussler, Clive. The Wrecker. Penguin Group, 2009.
Qualman, Eric. SOCIALNOMICS: How social media transforms the way we live and do
business. Wiley Publisher, 2009.
Professor Jeffrey Carr, Entrepreneurship, Recommends:
Godin, Seth. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Penguin Group, 2010.
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz. The Shadow of the Wind. Penguin Group, 2005.
Professor Stephen Brown, Finance, Recommends:
Bernstein, Peter L. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. Wiley & Sons, 1998. *
Burrough, Brian and John Helyar. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. Harper
Collins, 2009.
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Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern
Finance. Grove Atlantic, 2010.
Finance Department, NYU Stern School of Business. Restoring Financial Stability: How to
Repair a Failed System. Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Friedman, Milton. Essays in Positive Economics. U of Chicago Press, 1966.
Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side
of Everything. HarperCollins, 2006.
Malkiel, Burton G. A Random Walk Down Wall Street. W.W. Norton, 2007.
Reinhart, Carmen M. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Princeton UP,
2009.
Tett, Gillian. Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan was Corrupted
by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Professor Venkataramani Srivatsan, International Business, Recommends:
Outsourced: The Movie. www.outsourcedthemovie.com, 2007.
Professor R. Kabaliswaran, Management, Recommends:
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. Little, Brown & Co, 2008.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Little, Brown
& Co, 2002.
Schroeder, Alice. Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Random House, 2008.
Professor Jeff Green, Marketing, Recommends:
Collins, Jim and Jerry I Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.
HarperCollins, 2002.
Collins, Jim. Good to Great: Why do Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t.
HarperCollins, 2001.
* Also recommended by Professor Aaron Tenenbein, Statistics/Actuarial Science
