📚 Librarian's Book Recommendations
Curated picks for our Business, Management & Finance graduate students — a mix of self-improvement, practical skills, and field-defining classics.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Ever wonder why your gut instincts betray you in a negotiation or a market call? This Nobel laureate reveals the hidden biases steering every decision you'll make as a leader — read it once, and you'll never make a snap judgment the same way again.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Skip the theory-only case studies — this is the playbook real founders and product teams use to test ideas fast and fail cheap. If you're dreaming of launching something of your own (or leading innovation inside a company), start here.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Between classes, group projects, and internship applications, discipline is your real competitive edge. This book hands you a simple, science-backed system for building the habits that separate top performers from everyone else — starting today, not "someday."
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Warren Buffett calls it the best investing book ever written — and he's put his money where his mouth is. Whatever your specialization, understanding value and risk the way Graham teaches it will sharpen how you think about every financial decision you make, personal or professional.
Good to Great
Jim Collins
Years of research, real companies, real results — this book breaks down exactly what turns a good organization into a legendary one. Essential reading for anyone who pictures themselves leading a team, a department, or a company someday.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Before you can lead others, you have to understand what actually drives people — and few books get closer to that truth than this one. Written by a psychiatrist who survived the Holocaust, it's a powerful reminder that purpose, not just profit, is what sustains motivation, resilience, and great leadership.
🎓 From Our Students
Recommendations shared by fellow students in our Business, Management & Finance programs.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
A great book to start major change in your life with easy, simple steps — a personal, longitudinal workshop to produce the better version of you.
— Abubker Omaer, EMBA
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
A great perspective on what having "executive" in your title really means — both to you and to those around you.
— Adel Yasky, EMBA
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki & Sharon Lechter
One of the most influential books for reshaping how you think about financial habits, saving, investing, and maximizing your income — through engaging anecdotes, it shows how fear and limiting attitudes can trap us in a cycle of debt.
— Abubker Omaer, EMBA