Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Six Books Worth Reading This Summer

A study on breaking things, writing tips from a prose master and the original British detective mystery.

June 21, 2018 at 2:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

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Summer is now upon us — and if you’re like me, you’ve given up on ever getting to the end of “The Social Life of Numbers” and are looking for an alternative.

What to read? It depends on the situation: