The Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
Last updated: December 12, 2024
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award was set up two decades ago. Its definition of a business book is broad and most of the books that make the prize's shortlist are compelling reads about topical issues (though one or two books about the nuts and bolts of running a business can make it through). The prize is organized by Andrew Hill, now senior business writer at the Financial Times and formerly its management editor. Previous winners include Capital by Thomas Piketty and The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman.
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrongfnew ec
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Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
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The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives
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Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
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Growth: A History and a Reckoning
by Daniel Susskind
The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
From how to channel the tribal instincts innate to Homo sapiens to the role of Silicon Valley in the future of warfare, the Financial Times book award—now in its 20th year—has a broad definition of what makes a good business book. FT journalist Andrew Hill, the prize’s organizer, talks us through the six excellent books that made the 2024 shortlist.
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive
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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
by Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner -
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
If you like nonfiction books that will get you up to speed with what’s going on in the world, the Financial Times annual book prize is a great place to start. If you run a business, one or two useful books also feature. Andrew Hill, the newspaper’s senior business writer, talks us through the books that made the 2023 shortlist, from cobalt extraction in the Congo to how to manage the AI genie that’s out of the bottle and coming towards us at speed.
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Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry
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Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
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The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
by Chris Miller -
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Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
by Helen Thompson
The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
For its annual book award, the Financial Times looks beyond books that might be filed under business in a bookshop, picking out books that are compelling and enjoyable, explains Andrew Hill, the newspaper’s senior business writer. He talks us through the 2022 shortlist: books that shine a light on obscure but immensely important companies or industries, or address some of the bigger challenges facing our capitalist economies.
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The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
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The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
by Jack Farchy & Javier Blas -
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
by Michael E Mann -
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge
The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
Every year the Financial Times’s management editor, Andrew Hill, helps organize its ‘Business Book of the Year’ award, which celebrates outstanding books relating to business in the broadest sense. Here, he talks us through the 2021 shortlist, six books that will draw you in and open your eyes to how events happening in the world of business affect all of us–sometimes in very profound ways.
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
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Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World
by Rebecca Henderson
The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
Whether you’re looking for ideas on how to run a successful business or books that look at the various challenges facing capitalist society, the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award is a great place to start. Andrew Hill, who with colleagues at the Financial Times sifted through hundreds of entries to compile the award’s longlist, talks us through the books that made the 2020 shortlist—as well as offering some predictions for the year ahead.
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
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The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram G Rajan -
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
The Best Business Books of 2019: the Financial Times & McKinsey Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2019: the Financial Times & McKinsey Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
Confused about which of the thousands of business books published in 2019 to read? Fortunately, the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has sifted through hundreds of entries to pick the very best. Andrew Hill, the FT’s management editor and author of Ruskinland, talks us through the six brilliant books that made this year’s shortlist.
