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Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere

By Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble | Reviewed By Paul van der Boor
Summer 2012
 

Race Against The Machine

By Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee | Reviewed By Timothy Ogden
Spring 2012
 
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The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better

By Tyler Cowen | Reviewed By Timothy Ogden
Spring 2012
 
POOR ECONOMICS: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo | Reviewed By Timothy Ogden
Fall 2011
 
MORE THAN GOOD INTENTIONS: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel

More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty

By Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel | Reviewed By Kevin Starr
2 | Summer 2011
 
BUILDING SOCIAL BUSINESS: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs Muhammad Yunus

Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs

By Muhammad Yunus | Reviewed By Rodney Schwartz
3 | Fall 2010
 
THE POWER OF POSITIVE DEVIANCE: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, & Monique Sternin

The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems

By Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, & Monique Sternin | Reviewed By Dean Karlan
Fall 2010
 
HALF THE SKY: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Sheryl WuDunn & Nicholas D. Kristof

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

By Sheryl WuDunn & Nicholas Kristof | Reviewed By Kavita Nandini Ramdas
3 | Winter 2010
 

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