Bizbook additions, correction

I enjoyed Albert Madansky's article "How to read a Business Book" (February/01). Since I'm a fan of James March, I'd like to add two books he co-authored to Madansky's list of classics: Organizations (March and Simon, 1958), and A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (Cyert and March, 1963). I realize these are texts in organizational theory but feel reading them can be helpful to managers.

Al Murdach, AM'66
Hayward, CaliforniaTimonium, Maryland

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On page 44 of the February issue, the article "How to Read a Business Book" cites the Harvard Business Review for a 1993 critical review of the book In Search of Excellence. As an editor at the Review, I appreciate the reference. I'd like to point out, though, that the article in question appeared in 1983, a year after the book was published, not in 1993.

The article, in case readers are interested, is: Daniel T. Carroll, "A Disappointing Search for Excellence," Harvard Business Review, November-December 1983, pp. 78-88.

John T. Landry, AB'86
Providence, Rhode Island

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