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FT Partnership
Business Book of the Year Award
Supporting the FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award and Bracken prize for Young Authors.
Since 2005, the Business Book of the Year Award has celebrated the best ideas in business writing. And after a three-year hiatus, The Bracken Prize is back, celebrating the young thinkers tackling today’s most urgent questions.
At Standard Chartered we’re proud to support both prizes, which champion thought leaders whose work brings clarity to complex issues and offers original perspectives on global business.
Discover the shortlist
As the Business Book of the Year shortlist is announced, the judges discuss the key themes from this year’s prize.
- 1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed
- Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity by Aimee Donnellan
- The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby
- Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare by Katrina Manson
- Blood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas by Alex Perry
- Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI by Carissa Véliz
Key competition dates
April 13
Business Book of the Year submissions open
April 27
Bracken Prize submissions open
June 30
Business Book of the Year submissions close
Sept 30
Bracken Prize submissions close
October 6
Business Book of the Year Shortlist announcement
October 15
Bracken Prize Shortlist announcement
December 2
Winners Ceremony
Behind the prize
What leaders value in a business book
From Nadine Kessler, Director of Women’s Football at UEFA, to former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak, hear from industry leaders, FT journalists and Standard Chartered’s Group Chief Executive, Bill Winters, and Group Chief Operating Officer, Tanuj Kapilashrami.
Turning AI adoption into growth
Financial Times Senior Business Writer Andrew Hill speaks to our Group Chief Operating Officer, Tanuj Kapilashrami, and Andrew Chin, Chief AI Officer at AllianceBernstein, about one of the questions emerging across this year’s submissions: AI adoption, workforce readiness and the opportunities AI could unlock for economic growth.
About the awards
Through the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award partnership, we’re celebrating the authors helping leaders navigate a rapidly changing business landscape with ideas that meet the moment.