Bracken Bower Prize

Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize
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 a prestigious annual award given to the best business book proposal of the year by a young business 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 landed book deals with major publishers.[4] 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 former derivates trader Christopher Clearfield and University of Toronto professor András Tilcsik, the winners of the 2015 prize.[5][6][7] From the same cohort, 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.[8] The prize also led to a publishing deal for Saadia Zahidi, the 2014 Bracken Bower winner; Nation Books acquired a book based on her proposal, Womenomics in the Muslim World, in 2015.[9] In April 2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published venture capitalist Scott Hartley's book, The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World, a 2016 Bracken Bower Prize Finalist, subsequent Financial Times Business Book of the Month, and mention among the longlist for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017.[10][11] Published in paperback by Mariner Books, it has been acquired by Penguin Random House in India, and translated into Portuguese and Korean.[12][13][14]

Winners and shortlist

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


2017[15]

  • 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


2016[16]


2015[17][18][19][20]

  • Blue ribbon Christopher Clearfield and András Tilcsik, Rethinking the Unthinkable (subsequently published as Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It).[21][22]
  • (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
  • (S) Edoardo Campanella
  • (S) Sangu Delle
  • (S) Cerys Hearsey
  • (S) Chizoba Nnaemeka
  • (S) Thomas Roulet
  • (S) Ryan Shaw
  • (S) David Skarbek
  • (S) Alexander Webb


2014[23]

  • Blue ribbon Saadia Zahidi, Womenomics in the Muslim World
  • (F) Alysia Garmulewicz, 3-D Printing, Anything, Anywhere
  • (F) Jenny Palmer, One Level Up

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. ↑ "Book Trade Announcements - Submissions Invited For The 2016 Bracken Bower Prize". www.booktrade.info. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  5. ↑ Clearfield, Author Chris; Tilcsik, András (2015-11-18). "Rethinking the Unthinkable". Rethink Risk–The Blog. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  6. ↑ Hill, Andrew. "FT/McKinsey contest helps business book hopefuls land deals". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  7. ↑ "Book Trade Announcements - Submissions Invited For The 2016 Bracken Bower Prize". www.booktrade.info. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  8. ↑ Hill, Andrew. "FT/McKinsey contest helps business book hopefuls land deals". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  9. ↑ "Book Trade Announcements - Submissions Invited For The 2016 Bracken Bower Prize". www.booktrade.info. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  10. ↑ "Excerpts from the three proposals". Financial Times. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  11. ↑ Hill, Andrew. "Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist". Financial Times. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  12. ↑ "The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World". www.hmhco.com/. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  13. ↑ "The Fuzzy and the Techie". www.penguin.co.in. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  14. ↑ "O Fuzzy E O Techie". www.bei.com.br/. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  15. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize 2017: the shortlist". Financial Times. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "FT and McKinsey reveal Bracken Bower Prize shortlist". Financial Times. 24 October 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  17. ↑ "Book prize finalists announced". Financial Times. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "Excerpts from the three proposals". Financial Times. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  19. ↑ "Bracken Bower Prize". 15 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  20. ↑ "The Shortlist for the 2015 Bracken Bower Prize has been announced" (PDF). Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  21. ↑ Clearfield, Author Chris; Tilcsik, András (2015-11-18). "Rethinking the Unthinkable". Rethink Risk–The Blog. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  22. ↑ Hill, Andrew. "FT/McKinsey contest helps business book hopefuls land deals". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  23. ↑ "A Win for Women in the Muslim World". McKinsey. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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