From life after work to working with artificial intelligence, MIT Sloan researchers tackle our moment’s big questions in the eight books below. Each is an accessible, research-based read for your summer list.
MIT Sloan Summer Reads
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Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You
Researchers from MIT and Harvard identify four big tasks for retiring and show how tackling them can lead to a stable and rewarding retirement. (By Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram)
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The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines
A technology researcher shows how AI and robots threaten the traditional skill-development model and outlines how challenge, complexity, and connection remain essential for building expertise. (By Matt Beane)
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Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage Through Ecosystem Engagement
Two MIT innovation experts provide a practical guide to engaging with the five key stakeholders in an innovation ecosystem. (By Phil Budden and Fiona Murray)
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SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence
A behavioral scientist and a futurist look at the ongoing transformation of everything and show how leaders can navigate and drive radical change. (By Ja-Naé Duane and Steve Fisher)
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Entrepreneurship: Choice and Strategy
Professors from MIT Sloan and the University of Toronto detail four key choices entrepreneurs must make, and “four strategic approaches to find and frame opportunities.” (By Joshua Gans, Erin L. Scott, and Scott Stern)
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The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life
Two economists examine the interplay between our desire to be good and the personal costs of being good. (By Augustin Landier and David Thesmar)
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There’s Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work
Experts on organizations and operations management explain how to use dynamic work design principles to eliminate everyday chaos and boost productivity. (By Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer)
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Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning
A sociologist examines how well-intentioned market design unintentionally created vulnerabilities that led to California’s 2020 energy crisis. (By Georg Rilinger)
