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Get Justice This Weekend with Michael J. Sandel
By Porchlight
Michael J. Sandel has long had the most popular undergraduate course at Harvard. "Justice" has enrolled over 14,000 students since it began, and been so popular that, in 2007, Harvard began making the course available to alumni around the world through webstreaming and podcasting.
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Amazon's Best of 2010
By Porchlight
Amazon has announced their Best of 2010 list, and a business book cracked the top 10 overall choices. Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine barely did so, coming in at number 10. (Two other books in the top ten that may appeal to nonfiction readers are The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot and The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, which came in at numbers one and five respectively.
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ChangeThis: Issue 76
By Porchlight
Forget Cinderella, Find Fred Astaire by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox “Most companies would like to become more gender balanced at all levels, with women and men dancing together in a smooth and natural way. They have been trying for decades to attract, retain and promote more women. They have tried to grow their female customer bases.
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And the Winner of The FT/Goldman Sachs Award Is...
By Porchlight
The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year was announced last night at The Pierre in New York City, and it was something of an upset. Raghuram Rajan's Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, released by Princeton University Press in May, beat out more widely recognized and commercially successful books like Michael Lewis's The Big Short and Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail (which was the runner up last night, and which we named The 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year in 2009). The award was presented by Lionel Barber, FT editor and chair of the judging panel, and Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs who recused himself as a judge because of the number of books on the shortlist about the financial crisis—books he was a character in having been the head of a major Wall Street firm during the crisis.
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13 (Lucky) Reasons to Attend the Author Pow Wow
By Sally Haldorson
13. You wrote a business book, but you can't seem to get any traction: our panel of industry experts can help. 12.
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I'm Just Here for the Music
By Sally Haldorson
Each month in our newsletter, The Keen Thinker, we include a section on music recommendations called "What We're Listening to. . .
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The Leadership and Influence Summit - A FREE Online Event
By Porchlight
We've talked a lot in these offices about how the high cost of author events and business conferences makes it difficult for burgeoning leaders, business owners and bootsrappers—those that could really benefit from the ideas, information and insights that are exchanged there—to attend. And, though we've tried, we haven't figured out how to crack that problem. But Daniel Decker and the good folks putting on The Leadership and Influence Summit have, and we are excited to support them in their gargantuan efforts.
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Are Your Customers Worth Tchotchkes?
By Porchlight
Some companies send out coffee cups with their name on it. Or pens, or calendars. Other companies give away polo shirts.
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Some Perspective from What Technology Wants
By Porchlight
"The hydrogen atoms in a human body completely refresh every seven years. As we age we are really a river of cosmically old atoms. The carbons in our bodies were produced in the dust of a star.
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What Brings You to 800-CEO-READ?
By Porchlight
Some people like to read about the new books that are out, some have to order 50 copies for an event, some want to see the best-selling titles on the Inc. /8cr Bestseller list, and others just want to learn more. So, what brings you here?
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