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Michael Mauboussin

Michael J. Mauboussin is Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global. Previously, he was Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advised clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision making.

65 Recommended books from Michael Mauboussin

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  • She Has Her Mother's Laugh

    by Carl Zimmer June 4, 2019 Science & Math

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    4.6 stars

    446 ratings

    Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass a...

  • Smartest Guys in the Room

    by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind October 13, 2003 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    1,233 ratings

    An account of the rise and fall of Enron, written by award-winning Fortune investigative reporters, draws on a wide range of so...

  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

    by Dan Gardner September 13, 2016 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    1,391 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST

    “The most important book on decision ma...

  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    by James G. March April 10, 2010 Business & Money

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    4.4 stars

    13 ratings

    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizatio...

  • The Coddling of the American Mind

    by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff August 20, 2019 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.7 stars

    5,075 ratings

    New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notab...

  • The Diversity Bonus

    by Scott E. Page March 26, 2019 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.5 stars

    62 ratings

    What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The...

  • The Fear Factor

    by Abigail Marsh October 10, 2017 Health, Fitness & Dieting

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    4.6 stars

    76 ratings

    At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for g...

  • The Half-life of Facts

    by Samuel Arbesman September 27, 2012 Science & Math

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    4.2 stars

    131 ratings

    Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the...

  • The Halo Effect

    by Phil Rosenzweig June 17, 2014 Business & Money

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    4.4 stars

    236 ratings

    Too many of today’s most prominent management gurus make steel-clad guarantees based on claims of irrefutable research, promisi...

  • The Model Thinker

    by Scott E. Page September 1, 2021 Engineering & Transportation

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    4.5 stars

    329 ratings

    From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone...

  • The Outsiders

    by William Thorndike October 23, 2012 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    1,133 ratings

    "It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different." - John Templeton.

    What makes a success...

  • The Psychology of Money

    by Morgan Housel September 8, 2020 Business & Money

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    4.7 stars

    13,464 ratings

    Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to ...

  • The Sports Gene

    by David Epstein August 1, 2013 Science & Math

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    4.6 stars

    986 ratings

    The New York Times bestseller – with a new afterword added to the paperback – from the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph...

  • The Story of the Human Body

    by Daniel Lieberman July 1, 2014 Health, Fitness & Dieting

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    4.7 stars

    923 ratings

    In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolv...

  • The Storytelling Animal

    by Jonathan Gottschall August 5, 2021 Literature & Fiction

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    4.3 stars

    462 ratings

    A New York Times Editor's Choice

    A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist

    "A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] d...

  • The Theory of Investment Value

    by John Burr Williams June 1, 1997 Business & Money

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    4.4 stars

    43 ratings

    This book was first printed in 1938, having been written as a Ph.D. thesis at Harvard in 1937. Our good friend, Peter Bernstein...

  • Thinking in Bets

    by Annie Duke February 6, 2018 Business & Money

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    4.4 stars

    1,624 ratings

    Wall Street Journal bestseller!

    Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable wi...

  • Three Blind Mice

    by Ken Auletta August 27, 1991 Humor & Entertainment

    What happened to network television in the 1980s? How did CBS, NBC, and ABC lose a third of their audience and more than half o...

  • To Sell Is Human

    by Daniel H. Pink December 3, 2013 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    2,061 ratings

    According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million peo...

  • Trading Bases

    by Joe Peta March 4, 2014 Humor & Entertainment

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    4.2 stars

    164 ratings

    An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods. Here ...

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