Business Librarian
Financial Times' Best Business Book of the Year / Dec. 2024
For December 2024, here are 12 books from the longlist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year for 2024 that you can borrow from JMU Libraries. Parmy Olson won the £30,000 prize for Supremacy, which explores the rivalry between the founders of artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind (Hill, 2024).
Dec24 Gallery / Best Business Book of Year
Supremacy
Tells the astonishing story of the battle between the world's two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the hazardous direction they could go as they serve two tech Goliaths whose power is unprecedented in history.
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
John Kay, one of the greatest economists of our time, describes how the pursuit of shareholder value has destroyed some of the leading companies of the twentieth century.
Tribal
A revelatory, paradigm-shifting work from a renowned Columbia professor that demystifies our tribal instincts and shows us how to use them to create positive change.
The Longevity Imperative
Outlines the innovations needed to make the most of our longer lives: substantial changes to our health system, economy, and financial sector, as well as in how we manage our careers, health, finances, and relationships.
Unit X : how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war
A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X--whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's military: from the two men who launched the unit.
The war below : lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives
Building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires critical minerals, and the competition for them is intensifying. This is a story of the industry giants, researchers, and policymakers at the forefront of the new energy wars.
The Divine Economy
Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Today, they are big business -- they must recruit, raise funds, disburse budgets, manage facilities, organize transportation, motivate employees, and get their message out.
The Friction Project
The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations.
Higher ground : how business can do the right thing in a turbulent world
In this eye-opening, essential book, NYU Stern ethics professor Alison Taylor argues that amid stakeholder demands and transparency pressures, we can no longer treat ethics as merely a legal and reputational defense mechanism.
The algorithm : how AI can hijack your career and steal your future
Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world practices, journalist Hilke Schellmann reveals the secret rise of AI in the world of work.
The Unaccountability Machine
When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want.
The Everything War
The first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary.