Philanthropy & Social Impact
Using wealth and influence to create positive change in the world
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How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.
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How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
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Kate Moore
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Lydia Kang
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Simon Sinek
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.
Jasmine Brown
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Justin Lee
How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Barbara Minto
Logic in Writing and Thinking. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2020.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Adam Higginbotham
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
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Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
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The Effective Executive. HarperCollins, 2002.
William Quinn
A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
Charles Fishman
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Evan Osnos
Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. Vintage, 2015.
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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.
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How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.
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New Skills for Coaching People toward Success in Work and Life. Davies-Black Publishing, 2007.
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Understanding the New Rules of Language. Riverhead Book, 2019.
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An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave, 2016.
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How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Jossey-Bass, 2007.
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