22 September 2015:
The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company today publish the shortlist for the 2015
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Now in its
eleventh year, the award is an essential calendar fixture for authors and the
global business community alike. Each year it recognises the title that
provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.
For this year’s shortlist, the distinguished judges
have chosen the six most influential business books of 2015:
The Rise of the
Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by
Martin Ford (Oneworld Publications; Basic Books)
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and
Spectacular Fall of Blackberry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
(Flatiron/Macmillan)
Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin by Nathaniel Popper
(Allen Lane/Penguin Press; Harper/ HarperCollins)
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
(Oneworld Publications; Random House)
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics by Richard
Thaler (Allen Lane/Penguin Press; W. W. Norton)
How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the
Same Crime? by Stephen Witt (The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House;
Viking)
The winner will be announced at a dinner ceremony on 17 November in New
York, co-hosted by Lionel Barber and Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director
of McKinsey & Company. Wendell P. Weeks, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Corning, will give the keynote speech. 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.
To learn more about the award, visit ft.com/bookaward and follow the
conversation at #BBYA15.
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