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Career Reading List Recommendations

Concentration-Specific

Business Analytics

Laursen, Gert H.N., and Jesper Thorlund. Business Analytics for Managers: Taking

Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley and SAS

Business Series, 2010. Print.

Siegel, Eric, and Thomas H. Davenport. Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who

Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013. Print.

Business Leadership

Kouzes, James M., and Barry Z. Posner. The Leadership Challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002. Print.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey. The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1998. Print.

Williams, Joseph M. Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2006. Print.

Zander, Rosamund Stone, and Benjamin Zander. The Art of Possibility: Practices in

Leadership, Relationship, and Passion. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, 2004.

Print.

Consulting

Bartkus, Viva Ona., and E. J. Conlon. Getting It Right: Notre Dame on Leadership and Judgment in Business. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. Print.

PERSONAL COPY PROVIDED ON CAMPUS: Cosentino, Marc P. Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation (7th edition). Burgee Press, 2012. Print.

Friga, Paul N. The McKinsey Engagement. New York (N.Y.): McGraw-Hill, 2009. Print. Ohrvall, David. Crack the Case System: Complete Case Interview Prep. Ohrvall Media,

2011. Print.

Entrepreneurship

Aspatore, Jonathan R. The Vault Guide to Starting Your Own Business. New York, NY: Vault, 2002. Print.

The WetFeet.com Insider Guide: Zero to Sixty, First-person Entrepreneurship. San

Francisco: WetFeet.com, 1999. Print.

Finance – Corporate

Careers in Finance. Tampa, FL: Financial Management Association International, 2007. Print.

Burrough, Bryan, and John Helyar. Barbarians at the Gate. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000. Print.

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Finance – Commercial Banking

Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: an American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Finance / Ron Chernow. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1990. Print.

Wriston, Walter B. Risk & Other Four-letter Words. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Print.

Finance – Investment Banking

Careers in Investment Banking. San Francisco, CA: WetFeet, 2008. Print.

Lewis, Michael. Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. New York: Norton, 2010. Print.

Lowenstein, Roger. When Genius Failed: the Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011. Print.

Naficy, Mariam. The Fast Track: the Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, and Securities Trading. New York: Broadway, 1997. Print.

Rolfe, John, and Peter Troob. Monkey Business: Swinging through the Wall Street Jungle. New York NY: Warner, 2001. Print.

Finance – Real Estate

The WetFeet Insider Guide to Careers in Real Estate. San Francisco, CA: WetFeet, 2003.

Print.

Vault Guide to the Top Real Estate Employers, 2009. Vault Reports, 2008. Print.

Finance – Investment Management

Epstein, Adam. Vault Career Guide to Investment Management. New York, NY: Vault, 2008.

Print.

Loosvelt, Derek. Vault Guide to the Top 25 Investment Management Employers. New York: Vault, 2008. Print.

Marketing

Collins, James C. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't. New York, NY: Collins, 2009. Print.

Ries, Al, and Jack Trout. Positioning: the Battle for Your Mind. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Print.

Schulz, Eric. The Marketing Game: How the World's Best Companies Play to Win. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media, 2001. Print.

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General Career Development

Alba, Jason. I'm on LinkedIn--Now What??? (Third Edition): A Guide to Getting the Most Out

of LinkedIn. Silicon Valley, CA: Happy About, 2007. Print.

Beaudry, Dan. Power Ties: The International Student’s Guide to Finding a Job in the United States. Web. 18 July 2012. <http://www.powerties.net/index.php/the-author/>.

Bolles, Richard N. The Job-hunter's Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work Even When "there Are No Jobs" Berkeley [Calif.: Ten Speed, 2010. Print.

Bolles, Richard N. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2013 A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers. Ten Speed Press, 2013. Print.

The Job-hunter's Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work Even When "there Are No Jobs" Berkeley [Calif.: Ten Speed, 2010. Print.

Dalton, Steve. The 2-hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster. Berkeley: Ten Speed, 2012. Print.

Enelow, Wendy S., and Louise Kursmark. Expert Resumes for Managers and Executives. Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works, 2003. Print. (Anything in this series is good.)

Goldsmith, Marshall, and Mark Reiter. Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It. New York: Hyperion, 2009. Print.

Hansen, Katharine. Tell Me about Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and Propel Your Career. Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works, 2009. Print.

Industries and Careers for MBAs. San Francisco, CA: WetFeet, 2006. Print.

Jacoway, Kristen and Jason Alba. I'm in a Job Search--Now What???: Using LinkedIn,

Facebook, and Twitter as Part of Your Job Search Strategy. Silicon Valley, CA: Happy

About, 2010. Print.

Jones-Kaminski, Sandy and Jason Alba. I'm at a Networking Event--Now What???: A Guide

to Getting the Most Out of Any Networking Event. Silicon Valley, CA: Happy About,

2009. Print.

O’Rourke, IV, James S. Beginning Your Career Search: A Hands-on Approach to Building

Your Career Portfolio (4th ed.). Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2007. Print.

The Vault MBA Career Bible. New York: Vault, 2008. Print.

Professional Development

Casullo, David. Leading the High Energy Culture: What the Best CEOs Do to Create an Atmosphere Where Employees Flourish. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print.

Kelley, Robert E. How To Be A Star At Work: 9 Breakthrough Strategies You Need to

Succeed. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. Print.

Patterson, Kerry. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High. New

York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Print.

Zander, Rosamund Stone, and Benjamin Zander. The Art of Possibility: Practices in

Leadership, Relationship, and Passion. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, 2004.

Print.