The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company
invite submissions for the 2015 Financial Times and
McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
The Business Book of the Year Award is designed to
highlight the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into
modern business issues, including management, finance and economics. Eligible
for consideration are business books in the English language that are first
published between 16th November 2014 and 15th November
2015.
The deadline for entries is 30th June 2015 and the entry form
is available online at www.ft.com/bookaward.
Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times, will chair the
distinguished panel of judges for the Business Book
of the Year Award, which this year welcomes Reid
Hoffman, from LinkedIn and Greylock Partners, and Dambisa Moyo, from Barclays Bank, SABMiller and
Barrick Gold.
The judging panel will select a shortlist of up
to six authors, which will be announced at a luncheon in London in September.
The winner will be announced at the Awards
Dinner co-hosted by Lionel Barber and Dominic Barton, global managing director
of McKinsey & Company at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York on 17th
November 2015.
The winner of the Business Book of the Year
Award 2015 will be awarded £30,000, and £10,000 will
be awarded to each of the remaining shortlisted books.
Previous Business Book of the Year
winners include: Thomas
Piketty for Capital in the Twenty-First Century
(2014); Brad Stone for The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of
Amazon (2013); Steve Coll for Private Empire: ExxonMobil
and American Power (2012); Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
for Poor Economics (2011); Raghuram Rajan for Fault
Lines (2010); Liaquat Ahamed for The Lords of Finance (2009);
Mohamed El-Erian for When Markets Collide (2008); William D.
Cohan for The Last Tycoons (2007); James Kynge for China
Shakes the World (2006); and Thomas Friedman, as the inaugural award
winner in 2005, for The World is Flat.
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