Are you a Goldman Sachs aspirant and want to learn about its corporate culture, its thinking? What’s a better way than to see the literature that inspires and shapes their rank and file over the years? Goldman Sachs compiles a list of books written by many of its own as well as from the most influential authors in finance.
This list is among the most comprehensive finance reading lists we’ve seen. There are definitely many lesser known literature gems among this list.
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Industry Background and Flavor
The following popular works are, of course, exaggerated depictions of the darker side of the industry. However, they do provide some of the flavor of life on “The Street.”
Broad Industry History
Analytical and Reference
Periodicals
General
FICC & Equities
Options/Derivatives
IMD (Investment Management Division)
Written About, By or For Money Managers and Traders
Written by Current or Former Goldman Sachs Employees
- The Five Great Myths About China and The World by Jonathan Anderson and Fred Hu; PPP Company Limited; 2003
- Exploring General Equilibrium by Fischer Black; MIT Press; 1995
- Business Cycles and Equilibrium by Fischer Black; Blackwell Publishers; 1991
- Managing Currency Risk by Fischer Black; Association for Investment Management & Research; 1989
- Old Girls’ Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man’s World by Connie Duckworth, Sharon Whiteley
- Goldman Sachs : The Culture of Success by Lisa Endlich; Knopf; 1999
- Beginning the Journey: China the United States and the WTO by Robert Hormats; Council on Foreign Relations Press; 2001
- Global Aging and Financial Markets: Hard Landings Ahead by Robert Hormats; Center for Strategic and International Studies; 2002
- The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure, Revised and Updated by Steve Kerr
- The GE Work-Out : How to Implement GE’s Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy & Attacking Organizational Proble by Steve Kerr; McGraw-Hill Trade; 2002
- The Practice of Risk Management by Bob Litterman; Euromoney Publications PLC, 1998
- Foundations for Financial Economics by Bob Litzenberger and Chi-fu Hwang Prentice Hall; 1998
- Markets, Mobs & Mayhem: How to Profit From the Madness of Crowds by Robert Menschel John Wiley & Sons; 2002
- Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise by Roy C. Smith St. Martin’s Press; 2002
- Wealth Creators : The Rise of Today’s New Rich and Super-Rich by Roy C. Smith; St. Martin’s Press; 2001
- The Global Bankers by Roy C. Smith; BeardBooks, Incorporated; 2000
- High Finance in the Euro-Zone: Competing in the New European Capital Market by Roy C. Smith; Pearson Education; 2000
- The Money Wars: The Rise & Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s by Roy C. Smith; BeardBooks, Incorporated; 2000
- Cases and Readings in Markets, Ethics, and Law by Roy C. Smith; Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing; 1996
- Street Smarts: Linking Professional Conduct With Shareholder Value in the Securities Industry by Roy C. Smith; Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997
- Global Banking by Roy C. Smith Oxford University Press; 1995
- Comeback: The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy by Roy C. Smith; Harvard Business School Publishing; 1993
- Securities Markets in the 1980s: The New Regime 1979-1984 by Barrie A. Wigmore; Oxford University Press; 1997
- The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History) by Barrie A. Wigmore; Greenwood Publishing Group; 1986
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