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Books & Whitepapers

Faculty Insights

The Batten Institute supports select publications authored by Batten Faculty Fellows. Several publications by Darden faculty members are highlighted below.

Books

Strategy in the Digital Age

Strategy in the Digital Age

Covering major topics such as big tech, data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, autonomy, cybersecurity, data privacy, and antitrust, strategy expert Michael Lenox outlines a set of novel, original frameworks to help those undertaking digital transformation at their organization devise their strategy.

Can Business Save the Earth

Can Business Save the Earth?

Increasingly, business leaders are tasked with developing new products, services, and business models that minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth. It's a tall order―and a call that is only getting louder.

Design Thinking

Design Thinking for the Greater Good

Experimentation Field Book

The Experimentation Field Book

This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life settings. It guides readers from any background or discipline through the fundamentals of identifying testable ideas, selecting an evidence base, prototyping, and testing, building users’ skill sets and channeling their creativity through an interactive, exercise-oriented format.

Humility Is the New Smart

Humility Is the New Smart

Humility Is the New Smart is a book about human excellence – how human beings can excel at the skills that smart machines and smart robots will not be able to do well in the next few decades.

Designing for Growth

Designing for Growth

Decarbonization Imperative

The Decarbonization Imperative

In The Decarbonization Imperative, Professor Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff suggest that only with significant innovation and disruption across all of the major industry sectors - transportation, energy, industrials, buildings, and agriculture - will we be able to achieve this goal. The authors take a closer look at the clean technologies with the best chance of disrupting the status quo and the policy actions needed to accelerate their adoption.

Learn or Die

Learn or Die

In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess, Professor of Business Administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence, combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics and education with key research on high-performance businesses to create an actionable blueprint for becoming a leading-edge learning organization.

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Linked

By Omar Garriott

Linked: Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future.

Written by two former LinkedIn employees, Linked is the definitive guide to building a career in a digital world. Step-by-step, it demystifies LinkedIn—which is now synonymous with the job market—and empowers every professional, from the newly minted college graduate to the midlife career-changer, with the most important strategies to win the job search game.

The Decarbonization Imperative

By Becky Duff and Michael Lenox

The Decarbonization Imperative

Time is of the essence. Climate change looms as a malignant force that will reshape our economy and society for generations to come. If we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change, we are going to need to effectively "decarbonize" the global economy by 2050.

Mia & Tiago

By Gosia Glinska

Mia & Tiago

Based on the research of Professor Saras Sarasvathy and presented by The LendingTree Foundation, this 6-book series series uses entrepreneurship principles and stories of successful, real-world companies to teach kids how to think like expert entrepreneurs.

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