Book Review: Konovalov, O. (2021), The Vision Code: How to Create and Execute a Compelling Vision
This short book “is a breakthrough book that sets the foundations for a new school of thought”, according to Marshall Goldman, in the...
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Book Review: Joel Greenblatt (2010), The Little Book that Still Beats the Market, Wiley
This book is a classic when it comes to pinpointing what it takes to come up with successful stock market investing. The formula that the...
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Book Review: David F. Svensen (2005), Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach
Introduction This book was published in 2005, but it has become a “classic” in the world of personal investing. While the book is...
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Book review: Mohnish Pabrai (2007), The Dhandho Investor, Wiley by Peter Lorange
This book deals with how individuals can make better investments, particularly in stocks, through so-called value-based stock picking....
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Book Review: FastScaling by Patrick Flesner (2021) by Peter Lorange
This is a great book, written by successful growth capital investor and partner in Lead X Capital Partners, one of Europe’s largest...
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Book Review: Tamaseb, A. (2021), Super Founders: What Data Reveals about Billion-Dollar Startups
Ali Tamaseb is a partner in a successful venture capital firm in San Francisco (DCVC). He has spent over four years collecting and...
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Book Review: Anker, Peder (2020), The Power of the Periphery, Cambridge University Press
This book discusses how environmental policies were developed in the relatively small country of Norway. The author, Peder Anker, a...
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Book review: Schwab, K. & Malleret, T., (2020), Covid-19: The Great Reset by Peter Lorange
The Covid pandemic represents the most important public-health challenge that our world has faced. This book discusses ways to address...
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Book Review: Green, W. (2021), Richer, Wiser, Happier, Simon & Schuster by Peter Lorange
The author, an accomplished New York-based independent business writer, interviewed more than 40 successful investors for this book,...
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Fast Growth! Book Review: Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh, (2018), Blitzscaling by Peter Lorange
Growth is in many ways the most critical success factor when it comes to diverse aspects of business today: It is perhaps the most...
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Book Review: Sethi, A. (2016), From Science to Start-up by Peter Lorange
This book is written by one of Switzerland’s top serial entrepreneurs, Anil Sethi, who founded Flisom in 2006, and lead the company...
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Book Review: Melissa Mitchell-Blitch (2020), In the Company of Family: How to Thrive when Business
This is a very good book, and I recommend it. The topic it covers focuses on how a family business and a family shall be able to function...
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Why Small Firms Often Outperform Large Firms. Takeaways from James Breiding’s "Too Small to Fail"
In his new book “Too Small to Fail: Why Some Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They are Reshaping the World”, James Breiding...
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Takeaways from Howard Thomas and Yuva Hedrick-Wong’s Inclusive Growth by Peter Lorange
The gap between the wealthy and the poor around world continues to grow. According to one theory, this gap is caused by the lack of...
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Book Review: Plender, J., Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets, Biteback Publishing,
Introduction This is a well written book from a few years ago, which is still highly relevant today. Above all the author addresses two...
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Book Review: Hill, A., Ruskinland: How John Ruskin shapes our World, Pallas Athene,
Introduction John Ruskin’s motto was: “To-day, to-day, to-day”, and he also said “things are either possible or impossible. If things are...
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Takeaways from Andrew McAfee’s “More From Less” by Peter Lorange
Investments in projects that reduce our usage of Earth’s natural resources and help address climate change - are commonplace....
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Hidden Champions. Takeaways from Hermann Simon’s presentation at the WHU Family Business Conference.
“Hidden Champions” is a term coined by Hermann Simon, a German academic and business leader, and used later in the title of his...
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Book Review: David Epstein (2019), Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialist World by Dr. Peter
David Epstein was previously a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and has a master’s degree in environmental science and journalism....
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Takeaways from Robbie Kellman Baxter’s “The Membership Economy” by Dr. Peter Lorange
Introduction Although Robbie Kellman Baxter’s book “The Membership Economy” is not new, it represents, in this reviewer’s opinion, the...
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