This page showcases some of the books we have in our collection that have been written by LBS Alumni. If you know of a book by one of our Alumni that you think we should add to our collection please use the Purchase Suggestion link below.
Money on Your Mind : The Psychology Behind Your Financial Habits
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Do you find it difficult to stick to a budget?
Do you hide purchases from your partner?
Do you often argue about money with your family?
One of the most important relationships we have is with money, yet we are often unaware of what drives our habits and feelings related to it. Money can be a cause of anxiety, shame and conflict in our everyday lives. A complex web of emotional factors, past experiences and personality all determine the money choices you make and how you feel about them. But how can you overcome these emotional hurdles to make better financial choices?
Financial Psychotherapist Vicky Reynal dives into different money behaviours such as overspending, underspending, money secrets and self-sabotage to uncover how our past experiences impact our relationship with money. Reynal reveals how an emotionally absent parent can result in comfort shopping, how bullying in school can lead to overspending, and how absorbing a parent's lack of boundaries can stop you from making rational financial decisions. Through a mix of case studies, client stories and expertise in psychotherapy, Money on Your Mind will help you unpack and understand what is driving your financial behaviours for an improved and healthier relationship with money.
AI and Cybersecurity - Humanity's Portal to the Infinite
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AI & Cybersecurity: Humanity's Portal to the Infinite By Subramani Rao AI and cybersecurity have moved beyond specialist circles to become undeniably intertwined with the fabric of our daily lives. Overlooking either isn't just a missed opportunity--it's a risk in today's digital world. For those outside the tech world, these topics can seem overwhelming, cryptic, or irrelevant. Subramani Rao expertly addresses this challenge, making AI and cybersecurity accessible to everyone through simple language, memorable analogies, and a gripping storytelling narrative. He unpacks these complex subjects layer by layer, easing the reader into a range of topics--from AI's transformative impact on cybersecurity and quantum cryptography to digital twins, AI ethics and dangers, cyber insurance, and more. Beyond the technical, the book delves into profound philosophical questions, inviting readers to view AI and cybersecurity as intertwined forces that not only represent technological progress but also offer a lens through which to examine human evolution, our purpose, and our future. Within these pages, you won't just learn what's happening--you'll understand why it matters. And where you fit in this evolving landscape.
The Opportunity Lenses: How Spot Your Next Big Business Opportunities
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The business world has been changing in an accelerated way over the last decades, making it hard to anticipate what will come next. So, how can you identify new opportunities for your business? The Opportunity Lenses will help you imagine the future of your business by making sense of our rapidly changing world, so you can spot new opportunities ahead of the competition. What's the approach? ★ This book presents a directory of "lenses". These are a series of business tools that will help you notice changes in the world, explore the future, identify potential opportunities, and select the ones your company should pursue. ★ -- QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN THIS BOOK The Opportunity Lenses will help you make sense of the rapidly changing business environment and spot new opportunities. By reading it, you'll get to: Understand where opportunities come from Have the tools and mental models that will help you identify new opportunities Know the tricks of renown entrepreneurs for spotting opportunities Stop being confused between what's a business idea and an opportunity Have a clever way to frame opportunities to discuss and decide which ones to pursue or not THIS IS FOR YOU, IF... This is a book for practitioners who want to take action and explore a new way to think about innovation and growth strategy. It is a great read for: An entrepreneur, A brand or product manager An innovation manager An innovation or strategy consultant A marketer A venture capital investor A futurologist An economist The list is long and that's because The Opportunity Lenses is profoundly multi-disciplinary. So, it will appeal to a wide range of interests. The book borrows concepts from various areas from futurology to economics to psychology and anthropology to design, marketing, and strategy. -- CURRENT AND RELATABLE EXAMPLES You'll find a range of real-world examples from small and medium businesses (SMBs) to larger organisations such as Amazon, Dyson, Apple, and Meta (formerly Facebook). The book is also mentioning cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). Elements of Web3 and the Metaverse are taken into account while these two concepts aren't named directly. -- TOOLS TO FIND STARTUP IDEAS You'll find the concepts relevant if you are working on building a new venture. The Opportunity Lenses encourages you to explore what could happen in the future. It's a great way to find new venture ideas, future-proof startup investments, and test your own business ideas. These innovation tools and techniques are relevant to corporate innovation as well as product innovation and service design. You'll find the useful for new product development and also business model innovation. -- FORESIGHT AND INSIGHT The Opportunity Lenses leverages techniques used by futurists and futurologists to define future trends from the shifts in tech, politics, environment, and business. These tools can be widely used in corporate strategy, as well as product innovation. While the book doesn't fully focus on the topics of sustainability and green business, all the tools can be applicable to emerging and growing trends in those areas. -- INSPIRATIONS The book is the sequel of The Value Mix, a book about value proposition design. These are complementary to the lean startup, design thinking, and customer development methodologies.
Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire
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Essential strategies to transform your organization and boost your profits Want to recapture your organization's original innovative spirit? Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire helps you remove the obstacles that have crippled the innovation superpowers that made your organization successful in the first place. Helps you identify the blockages hindering innovation within your organization Reveals the fundamental changes that will help your business rebuild its hidden or lost innovation capabilities Explores leading innovation theories you can apply right away-without expensive consultants Get the strategies you need to remove innovation barriers, increase profits-and change the way you do business.
Humanity's Eleventh Hour
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Humanity's Eleventh Hour is a sweeping, urgent, and poetic reckoning with the planetary crisis we can no longer ignore. Blending the precision of science with the elegance of literary prose, Fernando Acosta takes readers on an odyssey through deep time--from Earth's fiery beginnings and the dawn of life to the precipice of ecological collapse where we now stand. In this meticulously researched and soul-stirring narrative, Acosta dismantles the illusion that human progress is without consequence. Drawing on history, climate science, geology, and philosophy, he reveals how our species--though a recent arrival in the planetary timeline--has become a force powerful enough to reshape the biosphere, rewrite evolutionary destinies, and tip the balance of Earth's finely tuned systems. With striking clarity, he exposes the human fingerprints on climate disruption, extinctions, and the slow collapse of ecosystems under the weight of pollution and habitat loss. Yet this is not a book of despair. It is a call to consciousness. A rallying cry for planetary stewardship in our shared "eleventh hour." Acosta challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths while reigniting a sense of wonder and responsibility toward the only home we have ever known. For readers of Carl Sagan, Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, or Yuval Noah Harari, Humanity's Eleventh Hour is both a warning and a luminous invitation: to look beyond the distractions of daily life, to reclaim our role as caretakers of a fragile Earth, and to act--urgently, wisely, and together. We are not merely inhabitants of this planet. We are its architects, its witnesses--and its last hope.
Profitable and sustainable real estate investing : an investor's guide
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Bouncing Back
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We all know about the accomplishments of world-class athletes but what happens when the time comes to pivot from the athletic world to a humdrum civilian life? In Bouncing Back: Athletic Transition Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned along the Way,
The value mix : create meaningful products and services for your audience
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How do you go from an idea to a compelling product strategy? How do you translate a customer interview into marketing insight? In The Value Mix, Guerric de Ternay answers these important questions. ★ Filled with innovation frameworks and examples, this short practical book helps you solve a big challenge every business faces: how do you create meaningful and successful products or services, i.e., design new value propositions that matter to your customers. ★ The Value Mix is complementary to the lean startup methodology, the design thinking process, and customer development research. This is a must-read for anyone who deals with innovation and strategy, whether you''re: ✓ A product manager ✓ An entrepreneur ✓ An innovation consultant ✓ A market researcher ✓ A marketing or brand manager You want to create meaningful value propositions for your customers? The Value Mix tells you how. -- ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ✓ How should I structure my customer interviews? ✓ What should I take into account when I design a value proposition? ✓ What matters most to my customers? ✓ Who are my real competitors? If you''re eager to answer those questions, have a look at The Value Mix. -- A BOOK FOR ENTREPRENEURS This book is also a great read if you want to start a business. The Value Mix is tailored to help you refine your startup idea. It will also help you highlight all the hypotheses that you need to test with your potential customers. It''s a great tool to generate new ideas, as well as run your own market research. Indeed, The Value Mix will guide your research so you can form deep customer insight and turn them into a compelling value proposition. The goal is to give you the tools that will help you design the right product strategy. And this is why, The Value Mix builds on the lean startup, design thinking, and customer development. It is also great way to explore the heart of your business model, i.e., value proposition design. -- A BOOK FOR CONSULTANTS You will also be interested in The Value Mix if you are looking at making a career in innovation consulting. The frameworks and concepts presented are really useful to better understand the innovation space. Many people who have applied to consulting firms have used these concepts to nail their case interviews. That''s because the business frameworks that come in The Value Mix will equip you with a structure to think about new product development. -- USEFUL INSPIRATION The Value Mix will be a relevant read whether you''re working on a business plan, starting your company, or in the process of developing a new product or service. It will bring you the inspiration you need to build your venture, and create value for your customers. From one side, the book dives deep into the world of consumer behaviour, psychology, and market research. It brings you useful concept so you can better understand your audience. From the other side, it gives you a framework to think about product management and strategy, bringing concepts from economics, design, and engineering. -- RELATABLE EXAMPLES To bring the concepts of The Value Mix to life, the book features examples ranging from small and medium businesses (SMBs) to larger organisations such as Coca-Cola, Eurostar, Ryanair, Apple, and Google. -- LOOKING TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS? If you''re looking for new ideas, new ways to grow your business, you''ll enjoy reading Guerric de Ternay''s most recent book: The Opportunity Lenses. The book will equip you with frameworks and tools to think about the future growth of your company.
Traveling the Consulting Road
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Traveling the Consulting Road is a book about consulting for new consultants, students investigating the field, and for more senior consultants who find themselves coaching newbies. There are the stories, lessons-learned-the-hard-way, and tools and methodologies used, from Alan Culler's thirty-seven year consulting career. The book traces the trajectory of a consulting career with information about the evolution of the industry, and specific advice about getting hired, succeeding inside a firm or as an independent if you choose.Alan's stated purpose to help others "avoid the mistakes I made. "I succeeded in spite of myself, but it wasn't always the best path." Alan's ability to poke fun at himself makes for easy reading and the in descriptions will help candidates evaluate the field and new consultants be successful. His advice "You are the product ¿ help the client make change in his business."
The 25 steps to accurate property valuation : how to value property faster and easier than you've ever imagined
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Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe
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The Free Fringe: Well over 9,000 performances in the 23 days of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, all free to the public and performers. A movement to emancipate Fringe performers and make the Fringe affordable for those who perform and those who watch. This is the story of how it started...
Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck
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This book highlights the historic inflection point we are in, both in terms of philanthropy in general, and specifically in financing the solutions to our largest and most urgent social and environmental problems. It covers the two movements that have recently had a dramatic influence on capitalism. First, wealthy millennials have been pressuring their bankers to invest their family portfolios in companies with high social and environmental impact (ESG ratings), triggering a wave where the wealth management industry, and now all public companies, are significantly adapting to the increasing demand for good. Second, The Giving Pledge triggered another wave, changing what success and the accumulation of wealth means. It has even begun to redefine the goal of capitalism as more than 200 billionaires have pledged to give half or more of their wealth away. This book also focuses on the bottleneck problem that The Giving Pledge has created, as it is very hard to give hundredsof billions away with measurable impact to nonprofits lacking detailed long-term plans to scale. Nonprofits have never had the luxury of having all the resources to invest in the planning, management training and systems needed to rapidly expand. Thus taking in very large gifts is very difficult, and almost impossible to justify. Large philanthropy can always be used for traditional capital campaigns and to fund endowments, yet The Giving Pledge signers are often looking for large visible impact beyond these traditional avenues. The result is a bottleneck which has grown as more billionaires pledge their funds away while their wealth continues to skyrocket and giving rates stay very small. Finally, this book covers the emergence of large giving vehicles, modelled after the private equity industry. They have sophisticated third-party managers focused on deploying funds and supporting management teams. It also covers the scaling of nonprofits in a significant way ("Big Bets") as well as investing large philanthropy through for-profits as Program Related Investments (PRI) at scale. This book is of interest specifically to nonprofit and foundation leaders, as well as wealth managers, estate attorneys and other philanthropic advisors. It is also of interest to investors and corporate CEOs as they begin to access these large pools for philanthropic capital to increase their impact. This book is focused on providing those with the ability to make large philanthropic investments a path to scale their impact and increase their fulfillment and that of their family. It provides a step-by-step guide of how these approaches, especially PRI at scale, can actually solve the social and environmental challenges that have been seemingly hopeless.
The Sustainable MBA
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The Sustainable MBA provides the knowledge and tools to help you "green" your job and organization, to turn sustainability talk into action for the benefit of your bottom line and society as a whole. Based on more than 100 interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from around the world, this first of its kind guide brings together all the pieces of the business and sustainability puzzle including: The basics on what sustainability is, why you should be interested, how to get started, and what a sustainable organization looks like. A wide range of tools, guidelines, techniques and concepts that you can use to implement sustainability practices. Tools and tips on how to "green" your job, including how to sell these ideas to your team, how to make green choices as a consumer and how to organize green meetings. A survey of the exciting trends in sustainable business happening around the world. A wealth of links to interesting resources for more information. The Sustainable MBA is organized like a business school course - allowing you easy access to the relevant information you need about sustainability and Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, Operations and Strategy. Giselle Weybrecht's commitment to sustainable development goes back to before her university years. Since then she has expanded her reach to local and national government, business, social entrepreneurs, and the international community. She worked for the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme, is a fellow of the UC Berkeley-based Beahrs Environmental Leadership Programme, and holds an MBA from London Business School. She is currently developing new approaches to raise awareness among managers of how they can incorporate sustainability into their businesses and everyday professional lives.
Turnaround/Restructuring Playbook in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the GCC
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Based on 25+ years working with high-potential companies across the region and globally, this playbook lays out a hands-on, phased roadmap for leaders, consultants, and investors dealing with business turnaround or distress in KSA and the Gulf region. It cuts through the theory-actionable checklists, diagnostics, and case studies tailored to the local market. Whether the challenge is steer back to the right course or crisis or scaling up, this is meant to be the reference point for real-world turnaround and sustainable results in this part of the world.
Integrated Business Leadership
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Integrated Business Leadership (IBL) describes a common-sense framework that all manufacturing (and similar) companies can use effectively to motivate and manage their organisation. IBL helps to develop a vision and strategy, and then deliver it.
Mind Tools for Managers
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The manager's must-have guide to excelling in all aspects of the job Mind Tools for Managers helps new and experienced leaders develop the skills they need to be more effective in everything they do. It brings together the 100 most important leadership skills--as voted for by 15,000 managers and professionals worldwide--into a single volume, providing an easy-access solutions manual for people wanting to be the best manager they can be. Each chapter details a related group of skills, providing links to additional resources as needed, plus the tools you need to put ideas into practice.
I, leader : leadership philosophy from the army and startups for the age of AI
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In the landscape of modern leadership, where innovation and adaptability reign, the merging worlds of the military, startups, and philosophy offer a trove of invaluable lessons. I, Leader delves deep into the heart of these distinct yet interconnected realms to unearth timeless principles that resonate in the age of artificial intelligence. As the founder of the world's first AI accelerator, Zeroth.ai, Tak Lo brings unique authority and experience to the topic of leadership in a rapidly shifting technological age. The book's format, a mixture of current analysis and reflection, combines Lo's early blog writing while building Zeroth with the hard-earned perspective that can only come with time and persistence. Drawing from the front lines of entrepreneurship and the military, I, Leader presents a compelling narrative that bridges the gap between seemingly disparate domains. Through anecdote and analysis, it reveals how the agile, experimental mindset of startups intersects with the strategic acumen and disciplined execution of military operations to offer a compelling addition to the literature on effective leadership philosophy.
Myanmar's digital coup : how the world responded
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This text explores the nature, scope, merits and limits of international responses to Myanmar's February 2021 coup. The novelty of this book lies in its analysis of the coup in the digital age. While the literature on Myanmar addresses issues such as earlier periods of reform, Myanmar's political transition, the Saffron revolution, and human rights, there is still limited research that looks into the influence of digitalised Myanmar on the post-coup Civil Disobedience Movement and protestors. Myanmar opened and changed enormously in the past ten years. The use of technology and the Internet increased phenomenally, exposing Myanmar's citizenry to new ideas, experiences and ways of viewing the world. The impact of these developments on responses to the 2021 coup is the focus of this book
