Books on NYU Stern reading lists
These books appear in course material that NYU Stern or its faculty have published. Each line shows how the book was listed, the course, the year the listing was seen and a link to the source. Reading lists change every term, so check the source for the current one.
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Strategy
- Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter
Recommended · MBA, COR1-GB.2103 Strategy I · seen 2023 · source
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Recommended · MBA, COR1-GB.2103 Strategy I · seen 2023 · source
- The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Recommended · MBA, COR1-GB.2103 Strategy I (Intensive) · seen 2023 · source
- The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Recommended · Graduate, INTA-GB.2380 Foundations of FinTech · seen 2023 · source
Data and Decision-Making
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Recommended · MBA Langone Program, MGMT-GB.3151 Managerial Decision Making · seen 2023 · source
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Required · MBA, FINC-UB 29 Behavioral Finance (combined undergraduate and MBA sections) · seen 2012 · source
- Data Science for Business by Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett
Required · Graduate, TECH-GB 2336 Data Science for Business: Technical · seen 2023 · source
- Data Science for Business by Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett
Recommended · Graduate, INTA-GB.2380 Foundations of FinTech · seen 2023 · source
Corporate Finance
- Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers & Franklin Allen
Recommended · Graduate, FINC-GB.2302 Corporate Finance · seen 2021 · source
- Valuation by Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart & David Wessels
Recommended · Graduate, FINC-GB.3331 Valuation · seen 2013 · source
- The Little Book of Valuation by Aswath Damodaran
Recommended · MBA, Valuation (Aswath Damodaran) · seen 2025 · source
- Narrative and Numbers by Aswath Damodaran
Recommended · MBA, Valuation (Aswath Damodaran) · seen 2025 · source
Negotiation
- Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury & Bruce Patton
Required · Graduate, MGMT-GB.2159 Collaboration, Conflict & Negotiation (Prof. Steven Blader) · seen 2025 · source
- Negotiation Genius by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
Recommended · Graduate, MGMT-GB.2159 Collaboration, Conflict & Negotiation (Prof. Elizabeth Morrison) · seen 2025 · source
- Bargaining for Advantage by G. Richard Shell
Recommended · Graduate, MGMT-GB.2159 Collaboration, Conflict & Negotiation (Prof. Elizabeth Morrison) · seen 2025 · source
Operations
Entrepreneurship
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Recommended · Graduate, INFO-GB.2332 Managing a High Tech Company: The CEO Perspective · seen 2019 · source
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Recommended · Graduate, FINC-GB 3362 Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: Fintech · seen 2023 · source
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
Recommended · Graduate, INFO-GB.2332 Managing a High Tech Company: The CEO Perspective · seen 2019 · source
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Recommended · Graduate, INFO-GB.2332 Managing a High Tech Company: The CEO Perspective · seen 2019 · source
- Venture Deals by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Recommended · Graduate, FINC-GB 3362 Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: Fintech · seen 2023 · source
Marketing
- Positioning by Al Ries & Jack Trout
Recommended · Graduate, MKTG-GB.2365 Brand Strategy (Prof. Fran Gormley) · seen 2021 · source