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In this blog post, Ford Library honors the Juneteenth holiday by sharing some selected e-book acquisitions and articles from our online collections and subscribed resources that focus on related timely and important topics.

Ford Library remains committed to pursuing a strong collection of resources that concentrate on the interrelationship of business with diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The titles below are only a sample of our newly added holdings, and we encourage our Fuqua faculty, staff, and students to send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.

E-Books

• Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
• Organizational Justice and Organizational Change : Managing by Love
• ‘Counting Black and White Beans’ : Critical Race Theory in Accounting
• The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
  – also available as an audiobook
• Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
  – also available as an audiobook
• The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
  – also available as an audiobook

Articles

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com.

• CFO Journal : Racially Diverse CFOs Are in High Demand, but Challenges Persist
  – While minorities already in the executive ranks are seeing more opportunities, it can be difficult for those without C-suite experience to break in, recruiters and finance professionals say.
• CEO Pay Increasingly Tied to Diversity Goal
  – McDonald’s and AmEx are among the companies tying executive compensation to adding women and people of color to leadership ranks
• Pittsburgh Is Losing Black Residents. One Entrepreneur Is Trying to Bring Them Back.
  – Venture capitalist David Motley is on a mission to help Black professionals take advantage of city’s rebirth as a center for technology, healthcare and education.
• Peaches Golding Is a Pioneering Representative of the Crown
  – An African-American businesswoman who serves as an official of Queen Elizabeth knows ‘the power of visibility.’
• The Daughter of a Slave Who Did the Unthinkable: Build a Bank
  – The first Black woman to run a U.S. bank, Maggie Lena Walker opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on the first floor of St. Luke Hall on November 2, 1903, in Richmond, Va..

Suggested By Faculty

New Scholarly Journal – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: an international journal
– Many thanks to Fuqua Prof. Angelica Leigh for her recommendation!

Thank you for reading! — please send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.

This month’s Director’s blog post celebrates an all-too-brief “summer” break for the Fuqua community with a collection of interesting miscellaneous articles. Enjoy some down time!

From the Wall Street Journal

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com!

• The Olympian Who Turned a Profit on Her Wedding
  – June has been the traditional month for weddings, and an Olympic-level triple-jumper brings her financial acumen and discipline to the process.
• CFO Journal : Racially Diverse CFOs Are in High Demand, but Challenges Persist
  – While minorities already in the executive ranks are seeing more opportunities, it can be difficult for those without C-suite experience to break in, recruiters and finance professionals say.
• Pittsburgh Is Losing Black Residents. One Entrepreneur Is Trying to Bring Them Back.
  – Venture capitalist David Motley is on a mission to help Black professionals take advantage of city’s rebirth as a center for technology, healthcare and education.
• CEO Pay Increasingly Tied to Diversity Goals
  – McDonald’s and AmEx are among the companies tying executive compensation to adding women and people of color to leadership ranks

Barrons.com “Extra” – The article below requires a Barrons.com account which is available to Fuqua users courtesy of the Fuqua Career Management Center and a generous donation by Mr. R. Scott Collins (Duke Class of 1993), President, Fiduciary Wealth Advisors.

• Top 10 Most Influential Women in Wealth Management
  – Barron’s latest list of 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance includes these 10 leaders in wealth management, including Morgan Stanley’s Carla Harris and Ellevest’s Sallie Krawcheck.

Popular Online Audio and E-Books

The titles below from Overdrive all have lengthy wait periods. If you don’t want to wait that long, let us know and we’ll see if we can purchase additional online “copies”.

• Empire of Pain – audiobook | ebook
  – A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin.
• Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most – audiobook | ebook
  – Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it.
• The Premonition: a pandemic story – ebook
  – Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.