With the holidays fast approaching, Business Week asked entrepreneurship professors at some of the country’s top business schools to recommend one book that they think all entrepreneurs should read.
Scott Meadow, a clinical professor entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and partner at Edgewater Funds, recommends a tale set at sea: Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick.
Meadow praises Moby Dick for its lessons in bad management. “It’s the story of an entrepreneur who violates the trust of all the constituencies that support him…financial backers, employees, and customers.
It’s the original story of how not to do it,” Meadow says.
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