Financial Times and McKinsey & Company publish the shortlist for the 2019 Business Book of the Year Award

For this year’s shortlist, eight distinguished judges have chosen the six most influential business books of 2019:

Shortlist for the 2019 Business Book of the Year Award

• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez, Chatto & Windus (UK); Abrams Press/Abrams (US)
• Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein, Pan Macmillan (UK); Riverhead Books (US)
• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, by Christopher Leonard, Simon & Schuster
• The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World, by Raghuram Rajan, William Collins (UK); HarperCollins (India); Penguin Press (US)
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff, Profile Books (UK); PublicAffairs (US)
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, by Gregory Zuckerman, Penguin Business (UK); Portfolio Penguin (US)

Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times, said: “This year’s shortlist covers the most important trends in modern capitalism. The judges praised the range and depth of the books which tackles issues including gender inequity, the data-driven economy, the quant revolution in financial markets and Koch Industries, one of America’s most powerful and most private companies.”

Kate Smaje, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, added: “This year’s authors probe critical challenges that every business is struggling with—among them the use and abuse of data, the role of talent in an era of AI and specialisation and how to spur more inclusive capitalism.”

Financial Times and McKinsey & Company publish the shortlist

The judging panel, chaired by Lionel Barber, includes:

• Mitchell Baker, Executive Chairwoman, Mozilla
• Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz (BBYA Winner, 2008, When Markets Collide)
• Herminia Ibarra, The Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School
• Rik Kirkland, Partner and Director of Publishing, McKinsey & Company
• Randall Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Dambisa Moyo, Global Economist and Author, Non-Executive Director, 3M Company and Chevron
• Shriti Vadera, Chairman, Santander UK; Senior Independent Director, BHP Billiton

The winner will be announced at a dinner ceremony in New York on 3rd December at the Park Hyatt Hotel, co-hosted by Lionel Barber and Kevin Sneader, Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company.

Ronan Dunne, Executive Vice President & Group CEO, Verizon Consumer, will give the keynote speech. The winner of the Business Book of the Year Award 2019 will be awarded £30,000, and £10,000 will be awarded to the author(s) of each of the remaining shortlisted books.

Previous Business Book of the Year winners include: John Carreyrou for Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (2018); Amy Goldstein for Janesville: An American Story (2017); Sebastian Mallaby for The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan (2016); Martin Ford for Rise of the Robots (2015); Thomas Piketty for Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014); Brad Stone for The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013); 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.

To learn more about the award, visit ft.com/bookaward and follow the conversation at #BBYA19.

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