What Harvard Business School Faculty are Reading at the Beach

As you ponder your summer reading list, here's a sampling of what faculty at Harvard Business School will be consuming. The full list, which includes all-time favorites and guilty pleasures, is found on the HBS Alumni Bulletin.

Tom DeLong: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, and a biography of Raymond Carver.
Nancy Koehn: The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus by the late Harvard minister Peter Gomes; Daniel Deronde, by George Eliot; Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis.
Rohit Deshpande: Between the Assassinations, Aravind Adiga; The Soul of Leadership, Deepak Chopra; Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Yvon Chouinard; Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, Jim Holt.
Stefan Thomke: The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuro-scientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human, V.S. Ramachandran; The World Without Us, Alan Weisman; Einstein's Clocks, PoincarÃ©'s Maps: Empires of Time, Peter Galison.
Rakesh Khurana: The Fiery Trial, by Eric Foner; The Network Nation, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff; Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart.
Zeynep Ton: My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk; The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan; Better, Atul Gawande.

What are you reading this summer?

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Sean Silverthorne

Sean Silverthorne is the editor of HBS Working Knowledge, which provides a first look at the research and ideas of Harvard Business School faculty. Working Knowledge, which won a Webby award in 2007, currently records 4 million unique visitors a year. He has been with HBS since 2001.

Silverthorne has 28 years experience in print and online journalism. Before arriving at HBS, he was a senior editor at CNET and executive editor of ZDNET News. While at At Ziff-Davis, Silverthorne also worked on the daily technology TV show The Site, and was a senior editor at PC Week Inside, which chronicled the business of the technology industry. He has held several reporting and editing roles on a variety of newspapers, and was Investor Business Daily's first journalist based in Silicon Valley.

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