19 SEPTEMBER 2013: The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs today publish the shortlist for the ninth annual
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, now an
essential calendar fixture for business people and authors alike. The award
aims to identify the book
providing the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.
This year's distinguished
judges have chosen the six most influential business books in 2013:
• The Alchemists: Inside the
Secret World of Central Bankers
Neil Irwin, Headline Business Plus; The Penguin Press
•
Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British
Economy
Iain Martin, Simon and Schuster
• Big Data: A Revolution That
Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor
Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, John Murray; Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt
• The Billionaire's Apprentice:
The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
Anita Raghavan,
Hachette Book Group/Business Plus
• Lean In: Women, Work, and
the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg, WH
Allen/Random House Group; Knopf
• The Everything Store: Jeff
Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone, Transworld/
Bantam Press; Little, Brown
The judging panel, chaired by
FT editor Lionel Barber, includes:
·
Vindi
Banga, Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
·
Steve Coll, Dean,
School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York and Staff Writer, The New
Yorker magazine
·
Lynda Gratton, Professor
of Management Practice, London Business School
·
Arthur Levitt,
former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
·
Jorma
Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell
·
Shriti Vadera,
Director of Shriti Vadera Ltd, Non-Executive Director of BHP Billiton and
AstraZeneca
Lionel Barber, editor of the
Financial Times, said: “The list this year strikes a good balance between
the quality of writing and ability to stir a powerful debate. The books cover
topics from leadership to the digital revolution and the financial crisis five
years on, and offer important business lessons for the world today”.
Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman
and chief executive officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. added: "This year's short list
demonstrates the breadth of smart and provocative writing about business
today."
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 winner of the Business Book
of the Year Award 2013 will be awarded £30,000, and each of the remaining
shortlisted authors will receive £10,000.
Previous
winners of the award are: Steve Coll for Private Empire: ExxonMobil
and American Power (2012); Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo for Poor
Economics (2011); Raghuram Rajan for
Fault Lines (2010);
Liaquat Ahamed for The Lords of Finance (2009); Mohamed El-Erian for When
Markets Collide (2008); William D. Cohan for The Last Tycoons
(2007); James Kynge for China Shakes the World (2006); and Thomas
Friedman, as the inaugural award winner in 2005, for The World is Flat.
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