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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

Blue Ribbon (Blue ribbon) = winner | Finalists (F) | Shortlist (S)

2014[20]

2015[22][23][24][25]

2016[28]

2017[29][30]

  • Blue ribbon 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

2018[31][32][33][34]

2019[36][37][38]

2020[39]

  • Blue ribbon 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

2021[40][41]

  • Blue ribbon 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

2022[42][43]

  • Blue ribbon 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

References

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  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.
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  10. ^ "Resilience through unspeakable pain and strife". today.duke.edu. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
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  12. ^ "Books". igorpejic.net. Retrieved 2 November 2018.[permanent dead link]
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  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.
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  20. ^ "A Win for Women in the Muslim World". McKinsey. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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  34. ^ 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.
  35. ^ Hanna, Andrew Leon (2022). 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1009181495.
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