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Recent Alumni Books
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Winners Never Cheat:
Everyday Values We Learned
as Children (But May Have
Forgotten)
By Jon M. Huntsman,
W'59, H'96
Wharton School Publishing
(2005)
"Nothing could be more timely than this provocative
book from one of America's foremost business and
civic leaders about the urgent need for greater ethics
in our public and private lives."
– Andrea Mitchell, NBC News
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Leveraging the New Human Capital
By Sandra Burud and
Marie Tumolo, WG'91 Davies-Black Publishing (2004)
"Infuses much-needed breakthrough
thinking into the discussion of human
capital. The authors refuse to let anyone who
manages people ignore the basic truth about leveraging
humans as capital: You can't manage people as assets
without respecting them as the whole beings they are."
– Anne C. Ruddy, Executive Director, WorldatWork
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The Debt Threat: How Debt Is
Destroying the Developing World
By Noreena Hertz, WG'91
HarperBusiness (2005)
"The Debt Threat should not go unnoticed.
Its message must reach the
highest corridors of power and the
masses of the marginalized poor who carry the burden
of debt through joblessness, increasing user fees for
basic services, hunger, malnutrition, and inadequate access
to health care and education."
– Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, winner of the 1984
Nobel Peace Prize
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Ruminations on
Twentysomething Life
By Aaron Karo, W'01 Fireside (2005)
"Ruminations on Twentysomething
Life examines those awkward and
absurd moments we all have after
college but are afraid to admit. If Jerry Seinfeld and
Candace Bushnell had an illegitimate child, its name
would be Aaron Karo."
– Farrah Weinstein, New York Post
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