Reading Lists
After taking a step back from a full-time operating role in health tech, I’m spending some time diving deep into the history of some of the most successful businesses that have operated in some of the most impactful industries in the US, as well as deepening my understanding of healthcare, and specifically the economics of healthcare. I’ve come up with a reading list that I’m going to work through over the coming weeks — 10 books on business history and 10 books on the economics of healthcare. Sharing it here. Feel free to send any recommendations!
Business History
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
Tough Calls: AT&T and the Hard Lessons Learned from the Telecom Wars by Dick Martin
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism by Bartow J. Elmore
Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
Disney War by James B. Stewart
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry by David C. Robertson
Business of Healthcare
Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Health Care Rationing by Peter A. Ubel
Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong by David Goldhill
Moneyball Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market by Harry Glorikian and Malorye Allison Branca
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, and Jason Hwang
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol
Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It by Marty Makary