Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times about Professor JoAnne Yates' book “Control Through Communication.” In her book, Yates examines the history of the filing cabinet and the “coevolution of information technology and the business world before the digital age.”
Writing for Forbes, Andy Boynton and William Bole examine MIT Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage’s new book ‘The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas.” “[Schrage] argues that even good ideas are ‘the enemy’ of innovation because they distract people from what’s most important—making sure you could do something useful with the ideas."
David Slocum of Forbes lists “The Second Machine Age” by Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson and Dr. Andrew McAfee as one of the best creative leadership books of the year. Brynjolfsson and McAfee, “explore the forces reinventing fields as diverse as medicine, retail, and transportation and having far-ranging implications for creative collaboration, business leadership and policy-making alike.”
Professor Clapperton Mavhunga speaks with Jasmine McNealy of New Books in Technology about his childhood, the history of innovation in Africa, and his new book, “Transient Workspaces: Technologies or Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe.”
Wall Street Journal reporter Chris Gay profiles several books examining the financial crisis, highlighting Prof. Simon Johnson’s book “13 Bankers.” In the book Johnson and his co-author, “trace two centuries of government attempts to grapple with the power of big finance,” Gay writes.
Professor Craig Wilder received a Hurston/Wright 2014 award for his book “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” writes DeNeen L. Brown for The Washington Post. According to the judges, Wilder’s book “brilliantly exposes the blood-soaked ties between slavery and high education and higher education in America.”
Carol Hildebrand writes for Forbes about a new book co-authored by Dr. Andrew McAfee and Dr. George Westerman that examines how well organizations integrate technology into their business strategy. The authors studied more than 500 companies in various industries and found a small number that effectively use digital technology.
Writing for Forbes, Joe McKendrick highlights Dr. Andrew McAfee and Dr. George Westerman’s new book “Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation.” The book offers advice for how manufacturers, service companies and government agencies can master digital technology.
In a piece for The Guardian about Apple CEO Tim Cook, Dominic Rushe writes about a new book co-authored by MIT Professor Michael Cusumano that examines what happens to companies after they lose leaders. "There's no reason Apple can't be an extraordinarily successful company but it will be a different one," Cusumano says.
In a piece for The Financial Times about the Eurozone economies, John Plender writes about Professor Barry Posen’s argument in his new book “Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy” for cutting U.S. defense spending.
In a segment about America’s renewed involvement in Iraq on NPR’s On Point, Professor Barry Posen speaks about his new book “Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy.” Posen argues that the United States should rethink its foreign policy and exercise a more conservative military approach in Iraq.
In a piece for Forbes about U.S. foreign policy, Stephen Harner highlights Professor Barry Posen’s new book “Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy.” Harner outlines Posen’s argument that current U.S. policy should be replaced with a more restrained military approach.
Research Associate Jonathan Caverley discusses the findings of his recent book, “Democratic Militarism: Voting, Wealth, and War” as they apply to the current crisis in Gaza. Caverley outlines reasons that Israelis support large defense spending and breaks down Israeli attitudes regarding security based on income.
David Rose of the MIT Media Lab speaks at the Harvard Book Store to discuss his book “Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things” in this WGBH video. Future “smart objects” will be developed not only for utility, but for attributes that make them feel “friendly,” says Rose.
Penelope Green writes for The New York Times about “Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things” by David Rose of the MIT Media Lab. Rose proposes that new technologies in the home actually mimic the qualities found in magical tools in fantasy and folklore.