Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

Bit late but never the less

(14 SEPTEMBER 2012)

The six most influential business books in 2012:

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Crown Business, Profile Books)

• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
John Coates (The Penguin Press, Fourth Estate)

• Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll (The Penguin Press,Allen Lane)

• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster; Little, Brown)

• What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets
Michael J. Sandel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,Allen Lane)

• Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence
William L. Silber (BloomsburyPress)

and the winner was

• Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

19 SEPTEMBER 2013

This year’s distinguished judges have chosen the six most influential business books in 2013:

• The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers by Neil Irwin

• Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy by Iain Martin

• Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier

• The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund by Anita Raghavan

• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

The winner will be announced at the award dinner on 18th November in London, co-hosted by Lionel Barber and Lloyd Blankfein. Simon Schama, historian, broadcaster and critic, will give the keynote speech.

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone Wins the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

A bit late announced on 6 August 2014. Financial Times’s 10th business book of the year longlist


Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

Hack Attack by Nick Davies

The Glass Closet by John Browne

The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

Dragnet Nation by Julia Angwin

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Edwin E. Catmull

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Sons of Wichita by Daniel Schulman

Shredded, the Bank that Broke Britain by Ian Fraser.

Fragile by Design by Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber

House of Debt by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History by Diane Coyle

China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard W. French

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold

The judges of the award will select a shortlist of up to six finalists on September 24. The £30,000 prize will be awarded on November 11.

A bit late but

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty won the award

The longlist for this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

The 15 titles include

Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
The Rise of the Robots, by Martin Ford
How Music Got Free, by Stephen Witt
Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
The Powerhouse by Steve LeVine
Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Restart by Mihir Sharma
Hall of Mirrors by Barry Eichengreen
Climate Shock by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman
Misbehaving by Richard Thaler
Phishing for Phools by George Akerlof
Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Black Horse Ride by Ivan Fallon
Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock

The judges will select a shortlist of up to six books on September 22. The £30,000 prize will be awarded on November 17

FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD November 18, 2015

Martin Ford, author of The Rise of the Robots , received the £30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

The 2016 longlist

Age of Discovery by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna

Alibaba by Duncan Clark

Bourgeois Equality by Deirdre McCloskey

Brazillionaires by Alex Cuadros

Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Makers and Takers by Rana Foroohar

Success and Luck by Robert Frank

The 100-Year Life by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott

The Curse of Cash by Kenneth Rogoff

The Fix by Jonathan Tepperman

The Man Who Knew by Sebastian Mallaby

The Profiteers by Sally Denton

The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon

The Smartest Places on Earth by Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker

What Works by Iris Bohnet

This year’s shortlist for the six most influential business books of 2016:

What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby

The winner will be announced at a dinner ceremony on 22 November 2016

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby was the winner

FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award (Long List)

A Man For All Markets by Edward Thorp
Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo
Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Economics for the Common Good by Jean Tirole
Grave New World by Stephen D. King
Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols
Janesville by Amy Goldstein
Move Fast and Break things by Jonathan Taplin
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman
The Driver in the Driverless Car by Vivek Wadhwa
The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel
The One Device by Brian Merchant
The Spider Network by David Enrich
The Wisdom of Finance by Mihir Desai
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination by Adam Lashinsky

FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award (Short List)

Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo
The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel
The Spider Network by David Enrich
The One Device by Brian Merchant
Janesville by Amy Goldstein
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao

The winning author, to be announced at a dinner ceremony in New York on 6th November at the Lotte New York Palace, will receive £30,000 and the five shortlisted writers will each be given £10,000.

Janesville by Amy Goldstein was awarded the £30,000 prize at a ceremony in New York on Monday.

FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018 (Long List)

Capitalism in America by Alan Greenspan
Crashed by Adam Tooze
The Bank That Lived A Little by Philip Augar
Damaged Goods by Oliver Shah
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
Give People Money by Annie Lowrey
New Power by Jeremy Heimans
Gigged by Sarah Kessler
The Billionaire Raj by James Crabtree
Fifty Million Rising by Saadia Zahidi
Brotopia by Emily Chang
Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz

FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018 (Short List)

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
Capitalism in America by Alan Greenspan
Give People Money by Annie Lowrey
The Billionaire Raj by James Crabtree
New Power by Jeremy Heimans

The 2018 prize will be awarded in a ceremony in London on November 12.

The shortlist for the £30,000 prize FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019 was announced in London

Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
Christopher Leonard - Kochland,
Gregory Zuckerman - The Man Who Solved the Market
The Third Pillar - Raghuram Rajan,
David Epstein - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World,