The Booth Bookshelf
Recent books by Booth faculty feature insights on everything from effective writing to private capital and healthcare.
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- June 12, 2025
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Chicago Booth faculty are a diverse group of preeminent scholars who are known for their award-winning research. They regularly publish books featuring the latest insights in finance, marketing, behavioral science, and other areas of business. Explore some of the most recent titles highlighted in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 issues of Chicago Booth Magazine.
Books Featured in Spring 2025
Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing
Melissa Harris, MBA ’16 (XP-85), Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Published by Simon Element, 2024
In an episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, Harris discussed what makes writing so difficult and why doing it better will add value to your work and your professional relationships. To read an excerpt from her book, coauthored with Jenn Bane, see CBR’s “You Don’t Need AI for Emails.”
The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World
Priya Parrish, MBA ’09, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy
Published by Wiley, 2024
Read an excerpt of the book in the CBR piece “Impact Investing Has Come of Age.” You can also listen to Parrish discuss impact investing in two episodes of the CBR Podcast: “Does Your Portfolio Need Impact Investments?” and “What Do We Get Wrong about Impact Investing.
Books Featured in Fall 2024
Private Capital: The Complete Guide to Private Markets Investing
Stefan W. Hepp, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Published by Wiley, 2024
Hepp joined SID AI’s Max Rumpf and Chicago Biomedical Consortium’s Michelle Hoffmann in 2023 to discuss funding for artificial-intelligence startups in an episode of the CBR Podcast called “Is AI Startup Funding a Rerun of the Dot-Com Bubble?” To read an excerpt from Hepp’s book, see “Death of the Unicorns” in the Summer 2024 issue of CBR.
Better Health Economics: An Introduction for Everyone
Matthew Notowidigdo, David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics and Business and Public Policy Fellow, with Boston University’s Tal Gross
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2024
Read an excerpt of the book in “Healthcare and the Moral Hazard Problem” from the Fall 2024 issue of CBR. And listen to Notowidigdo discuss themes from his book, including the cost of US healthcare, in a conversation in two parts on the CBR Podcast: “How Can We Fix US Healthcare?” and “Why Is US Healthcare So Expensive?”
Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity
Raghuram G. Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, with Cornell’s Rohit Lamba
Published by Princeton University Press, 2024
Rajan joined the CBR Podcast in May for a two-part series about India’s potential growth as one of the world’s biggest economies. Listen to the episodes here: “Democracy and Innovation Could Set India on a Different Development Path” and “Can India's Economy Break the Mold?”
Enter a raffle to win an autographed copy of Harris’s or Parrish’s book. Send an email to editor@chicagobooth.edu with the subject line “Booth Bookshelf.” Include the title of the book you prefer in the body of the email. The drawing closes on July 1. Winners will be chosen at random.
The raffle for Hepp’s, Notowidigdo’s, and Rajan’s books has ended.