Financial Times and McKinsey Business Bracken Bower Prize

Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize
Awarded for	Best business book proposal by an author under 35
Sponsor	Financial Times McKinsey & Company
Location	London / New York
Reward	£15,000
First awarded	2014

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 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]

Winners and shortlist

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

2015^[4][5][6][7]

• Christopher Clearfield and András Tilcsik, Rethinking the Unthinkable: Managing the Risk of Catastrophic Failure in the Twenty-First Century
• (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) Alexander Webb
• (S) Cerys Hearsey
• (S) Chizoba Nnaemeka
• (S) David Skarbek
• (S) Edoardo Campanella
• (S) Ryan Shaw
• (S) Sangu Delle

2014^[8]

• 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 prize finalists announced". Financial Times. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
5. "Excerpts from the three proposals". Financial Times. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
6. "Bracken Bower Prize". 15 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
7. "The Shortlist for the 2015 Bracken Bower Prize has been announced" (PDF). Retrieved 27 April 2016.
8. "A Win for Women in the Muslim World". McKinsey. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2015.