Bracken Bower Prize

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Financial Times Bracken Prize
Awarded forBest business book proposal by an author under 35
Sponsored by Financial Times
McKinsey & Company
LocationLondon / New York
Reward£15,000
First award2014

The Bracken Prize (formerly the Financial Times and McKinsey 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 was 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]

In 2023, the Financial Times announced that the Bracken Prize would not take place that year, rather, it would host a celebration of paster winners and entrants. In 2024, Financial Times announced that the Bracken Prize would again not be taking place and that it was attempting to secure resources for a return of the prize. [20]

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon ( Blueribbon icon.png ) = winner | Finalists (F) | Shortlist (S)

2014 [21]

2015 [23] [24] [25] [26]

2016 [29]

2017 [30] [31]

2018 [32] [33] [34] [35]

2019 [38] [39] [40]

2020 [41]

2021 [42] [43]

2022 [44] [45]

References

  1. ↑ "Financial Times and McKinsey: The Bracken Bower Prize" (PDF). Financial Times. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Financial Times and McKinsey & Company launch the 2014 Business Book of the Year Award". Financial Times. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "FT/McKinsey announce the Bracken Bower Prize finalists". Financial Times. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "Book Trade Announcements - Submissions Invited For The 2016 Bracken Bower Prize". www.booktrade.info. 25 April 2016. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Hill, Andrew (22 October 2018). "Bracken Bower Prize 2018: the shortlist". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Announcing a trailblazing new book on securing our natural capital". Penguin Random House India. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  7. ↑ "Duckworth signs "rising star" Shrikanth's debut". The Bookseller. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  8. ↑ "A gripping account of China's rise as a tech superpower". Financial Times. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  9. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2021 — the shortlist". Financial Times. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  10. ↑ "Resilience through unspeakable pain and strife". today.duke.edu. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  11. ↑ Hill, Andrew (22 October 2018). "Bracken Bower Prize 2018: the shortlist". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  12. ↑ "Books". igorpejic.net. Retrieved 2 November 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  13. ↑ "Excerpts from the three proposals". Financial Times. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  14. ↑ Hill, Andrew. "Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist". Financial Times. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  15. ↑ "The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World". www.hmhco.com/. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  16. ↑ "The Fuzzy and the Techie". www.penguin.co.in. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  17. ↑ "O Fuzzy E O Techie". www.bei.com.br/. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  18. 1 2 Clearfield, Author Chris; Tilcsik, András (18 November 2015). "Rethinking the Unthinkable". Rethink Risk–The Blog. Retrieved 16 May 2016.{{cite web}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  19. 1 2 3 Hill, Andrew. "FT/McKinsey contest helps business book hopefuls land deals". Financial Times. ISSN   0307-1766 . Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  20. ↑ https://brackenprize.live.ft.com/
  21. ↑ "A Win for Women in the Muslim World". McKinsey. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  22. ↑ Zahidi, Saadia (2018). Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World. Bold Type Books. ISBN   978-1568585901.
  23. ↑ Hill, Andrew (13 November 2015). "Book prize finalists announced". Financial Times. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  24. ↑ "Excerpts from the three proposals". Financial Times. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  25. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize". 15 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  26. ↑ "The Shortlist for the 2015 Bracken Bower Prize has been announced" (PDF). Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  27. ↑ Sun, Irene Yuan (2017). The next factory of the world : how Chinese investment is reshaping Africa. Boston, Massachusetts. ISBN   978-1-63369-281-7. OCLC   979557541.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  28. ↑ Roulet, Thomas (Thomas J.) (September 2020). The power of being divisive : understanding negative social evaluations. Stanford, California. ISBN   978-1-5036-1390-4. OCLC   1143840507.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  29. ↑ "FT and McKinsey reveal Bracken Bower Prize shortlist". Financial Times. 24 October 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  30. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2017: the shortlist". Financial Times. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  31. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2017: excerpts from finalists' proposals". Financial Times. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  32. ↑ Hill, Andrew (22 October 2018). "Bracken Bower Prize 2018: the shortlist". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  33. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2018: excerpts from finalists' proposals". Financial Times. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  34. ↑ Hill, Andrew (12 November 2018). "'Bad Blood' wins the FT and McKinsey Business Book of 2018". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  35. ↑ Trickey, Erick (21 November 2018). "25 Million Sparks: Andrew Leon Hanna '19 on his prize-winning book project". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  36. ↑ Hanna, Andrew Leon (2022). 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1009181495.
  37. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2018: excerpts from finalists' proposals". Financial Times. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  38. ↑ Hill, Andrew (25 October 2019). "Bracken Bower Prize 2019 — the shortlist" . Financial Times . Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  39. ↑ Hill, Andrew (19 November 2019). "Bracken Bower Prize 2019: the finalists" . Financial Times . Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  40. ↑ Hill, Andrew (4 December 2019). "Bracken Bower Prize 2019: the winner" . Financial Times . Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  41. ↑ Hill, Andrew (2 November 2020). "Bracken Bower Prize 2020 — the shortlist". www.ft.com. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  42. ↑ "Bracken Bower prize 2021: the winners". Financial Times. 1 December 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  43. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2021 — the shortlist". Financial Times. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  44. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2022 — the shortlist". Financial Times. 1 November 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  45. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2022: the finalists". Financial Times. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
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