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Career Insights from Top Non-Fiction Books

MBA Reads strives to be the premier destination for non-fiction book summaries that offer actionable insights to enhance both your career and life. Recognizing the value of your time, we prioritize efficiently delivering the most valuable takeaways and ideas from the books we read, making them easily applicable for you. As working professionals ourselves, we are learning alongside you and applying these lessons and strategies in real time in our real careers, so we hope for our sake and yours that these summaries are useful!

So, who are “we”? Drew, Jack, and Kelsey met in business school at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where we led the school’s Media & Entertainment club. We’re passionate about sharing great ideas with others, and are avid consumers of great storytelling — from books to podcasts to journalism to movies and beyond. On the precipice of starting management consulting jobs after graduation, we created MBA Reads as a way to stay creative and keep reading and learning in our free time. We’re excited to be here and appreciate you joining us.

You can learn more about our summary format here. We would love to hear from you if you have feedback or were able to use these insights in your career – [email protected]

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Drew Johnson


Jack Conway

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Kelsey O’Connor