10 books MBA professors at top schools like Stanford, Harvard, and Kellogg are recommending to their students

• To prepare the next generation of business leaders post-COVID-19 and address systemic racism, MBA professors are changing up their reading lists for their classes.
• Their top picks for what to read to understand today’s climate include “American Apartheid,” “The American Non-Dilemma,” and “Biased.”
• They also recommended business books like “Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader” and “The Advice Trap.”

We’re collectively living through two of the most challenging events of our lifetime: a pandemic and protests over racial injustice after George Floyd’s death.

Along with everything else that’s changing, many business school professors are making modifications to their reading lists to help raise the next generation of business leaders.

Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Harvard Business School (HBS), Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and others gave Business Insider a preview of the titles that they’re recommending or assigning to their 2020 MBA students – here are their top picks:  

1. “American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass” by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton