Bracken Bower Prize
Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize | |
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Awarded for | Best business book proposal by an author under 35 |
Sponsored by | Financial Times McKinsey & Company |
Location | London / New York |
Reward(s) | £15,000 |
First awarded | 2014 |
The Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize (or simply the Bracken Bower Prize) is an annual award given to the best business book proposal of the year by a young writer, as determined by the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company. It aims to find the "best proposal for a book about the challenges and opportunities of growth by an author aged under 35".[1]
Established in 2014, the prize is named after Brendan Bracken, chairman of the Financial Times from 1945 to 1958, and Marvin Bower, managing director of McKinsey from 1950 to 1967.[2] The prize is worth £15,000 and is presented at the same time as the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.[3]
Several previous winners and finalists of the contest have landed book deals with major publishers.[4][5] Siddarth Shrikanth, finalist for the 2020 prize, secured publishing deals with Duckworth Books and Penguin Random House for his book, The Case for Nature.[6][7] Winner of the 2019 Prize, Jonathan Hillman had his book on China's global infrastructure expansion, The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future, published by Harper Business.[8] Cambridge University Press published the book by 2018 Prize Winner Andrew Leon Hanna, 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs, which tells the story of three Syrian women entrepreneurs in the Za'atari refugee camp and of refugee entrepreneurs around the world.[9][10] From the same cohort, finalist Christian Busch had his book, published as The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, released by Riverhead Books.
From the 2016 cohort, Kogan Page published Blockchain Babel: The Crypto Craze and the Challenge to Business by finalist Igor Pejic.[11][12] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published venture capitalist and Bracken Bower finalist Scott Hartley's book, The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World, a Financial Times Business Book of the Month that was mentioned on the longlist for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award in 2017.[13][14] Published in paperback by Mariner Books, it has been acquired by Penguin Random House in India, and translated into Portuguese and Korean.[15][16][17]
Among the 2015 cohort, Penguin Press agreed to publish Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It, a book about the changing nature of failure in business and life, by 2015 Prize Winners and former derivates trader Christopher Clearfield and University of Toronto professor András Tilcsik.[18][19][4] Meltdown won Canada's National Business Book Award in 2019. Irene Yuan Sun's short-listed proposal for a book about China's economic role in Africa was picked up by Harvard Business Review Press.[19]
The prize also led to a publishing deal for Saadia Zahidi, the first-ever Bracken Bower Prize winner in 2014; Nation Books acquired a book based on her proposal, Womenomics in the Muslim World, in 2015, and it was retitled Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World.[4]
Winners and shortlist
[edit]Blue Ribbon () = winner | Finalists (F) | Shortlist (S)
2014[20]
Saadia Zahidi, Womenomics in the Muslim World, published as Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World (Bold Type Books, 2018)[21]
- (F) Alysia Garmulewicz, 3-D Printing, Anything, Anywhere
- (F) Jenny Palmer, One Level Up
Christopher Clearfield & András Tilcsik, Rethinking the Unthinkable, published as Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Penguin Press, 2018) [18][19]
- (F) Jonathan Hillman, The Fog of More
- (F) Irene Yuan Sun, Brave Old World: Why China's Investments in Africa Should Make Us Rethink Economic Development (Harvard Business Press, 2017)[26]
- (S) Edoardo Campanella
- (S) Sangu Delle
- (S) Cerys Hearsey
- (S) Chizoba Nnaemeka
- (S) Thomas Roulet, The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations (Stanford University Press, 2020)[27]
- (S) Ryan Shaw
- (S) David Skarbek
- (S) Alexander Webb
2016[28]
Nora Rosendahl, Mental Meltdown
- (F) Igor Pejic, Blockchain Babel: The Crypto Craze and the Challenge to Business (Kogan Page, 2019)
- (F) Scott Hartley, The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
- (S) Sophie Dickins
- (S) Simon Hedlin
- (S) Gavin McLoughlin
- (S) Ross Murdoch
- (S) Pavan Soni
- (S) Alexander Webb
Mehran Gul, The New Geography of Innovation
- (F) Michael Motala, The Peer-to-Peer Social Contract
- (F) Alexandre Lazarow, Startup Heretic
- (S) Christian Busch
- (S) Wendy Bradley
- (S) Walter Frick
- (S) Geoffrey Gertz
- (S) Alexander Goemans
- (S) Jonathan Hillman
- (S) Maja Korica
- (S) Anika Nagpal & Nina Vasan
Andrew Leon Hanna, 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge University Press, 2022)[35]
- (F) Christian Busch, The Serendipity Factor, published as The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck (Riverhead Books, 2020)
- (F) Piyumi Kapugeekiyana, One Billion in Reserve
- (S) Maneet Ahuja
- (S) David Buckmaster, Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses (Harper Business, 2021)
- (S) Owen W. Cameron
- (S) Neil Doig
- (S) Muris Hadzic
- (S) Edoardo Maggini
- (S) Michelle Meagher
- (S) Joel Modestus & Sreevas Sahasranamam
- (S) Colette van der Ven
Jonathan Hillman, The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future (Harper Business, 2021)
- (F) Paulo Savaget
- (F) Ernesto Zaldivar
- (S) Alonso de Gortari
- (S) Maram Ahmed
- (S) Yaman Kaakeh
- (S) Vardhan Kapoor
- (S) Salil Motianey
- (S) Katya Peremanova
- (S) Thomas Roulet
- (S) Siling Tan
2020[39]
Stephen Boyle, New Money
- (F) Rola Kaakeh, Waiting on Medicines: Our Reliance on Medications to Shape our Future
- (F) Siddarth Shrikanth, Money Trees: Making the Business Case for Nature
- (S) Sophie Campbell
- (S) Portia Crowe
- (S) Sean Henry Drake
- (S) Laura Fedoruk
- (S) Anas Kaakeh
- (S) Babatunde Onabajo
- (S) Beniamino Pagliaro
- (S) John Soroushian
- (S) Sughra Shah Bukhari
- (S) Alexander Webb
Ines Lee & Eileen Tipoe, Failing the Class
- (F) Manuel Hepfer, The Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call
- (F) Melissa Zhang, Trailblazers
- (S) Lucy Christie
- (S) Sri Muppidi
- (S) Joanna Socha
- (S) Richard Hudson
- (S) Vardhan Kapoor
- (S) Joel Modestus
- (S) Ben Payton
- (S) Jonathan Pierre
- (S) Joe Sullivan
- (S) Aaron Taylor
- (S) Benjamin Tur
Âriel de Fauconberg, Before the Dawn
- (F) Victoria Berquist, The Unstoppable Rise of Private Capital in Public Health
- (F) Julia Marisa Sekula, Owning the Centre
- (S) Otilia Barbuta
- (S) James da Costa
- (S) Will Hall-Smith
- (S) Patrick Hinton
- (S) Anas Kaakeh
- (S) David Maggs
- (S) Salil Motianey
- (S) Drake Pooley
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