Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as determined by the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company. It aims to find the book that has 'the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues'. The award was established in 2005 and is worth. Beginning in 2010, five short-listed authors each receive, previously it was.
The award's principal partner was Goldman Sachs from 2005–2013, when it was known as the "Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award". The principal partner became McKinsey & Company beginning in 2014.
Since 2014, the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award is presented at the same time as the Bracken Bower Prize for young business writers.
Winners and shortlist
Blue Ribbon = winner2005
The shortlist was announced 20 September 2005, and the winner announced 24 November 2005.- John Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner,
- Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
- Constantinos C. Markides, Paul Geroski, Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets
- Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade
- James B. Stewart, DisneyWar
2006
- Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
- Bo Burlingham, Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
- Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It's Transforming the American Economy
- James Kynge, China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for America
- Marc Levinson,
2007
- William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
- Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
- Philippe Legrain, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
- Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
2008
- William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
- Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey, Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry
- Mohamed El-Erian, When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
- Misha Glenny, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
- Lawrence Lessig, '
- Alice Schroeder, '
2009
- Liaquat Ahamed, '
- Stephen Green, Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World
- Nandan Nilekani, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
- Frank Partnoy, The Match King
- George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, '
- David Wessel, In Fed We Trust
2010
- Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
- David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Sebastian Mallaby, '
- Raghuram G. Rajan, '
- Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves
2011
- Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
- Edward Glaeser, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
- Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
- Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
- Daniel Yergin,
2012
- Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
- John M. Coates, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
- Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
- Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
- Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets
- William L. Silber, Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence
2013
- Neil Irwin, The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers
- Iain Martin, Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
- Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
- Anita Raghavan, The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
- Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
- Brad Stone,
2014
- Julia Angwin, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
- Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- Nick Davies,
- Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, House of Debt: How They Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2015
- Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment
- Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry
- Nathaniel Popper, Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin
- Anne-Marie Slaughter,
- Richard Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
- Stephen Witt, How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?
2016
- Iris Bohnet, What Works: Gender Equality by Design
- Duncan Clark, Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
- Rana Foroohar, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
- Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott, The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
- Sebastian Mallaby, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
2017
- David Enrich, The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
- Amy Goldstein,
- Andrew W. Lo, Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
- Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
- Ellen Pao, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
- Walter Scheidel, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
2018
- John Carreyrou,
- James Crabtree, The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
- Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge, Capitalism in America: A History
- Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
- Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy
- Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You
2019
- Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- David Epstein, Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
- Raghuram Rajan, The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World
- Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- Gregory Zuckerman, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution