The Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award is now open for submissions. The award, first launched in 2005, celebrates the very best in business writing from around the world, and honours books that deliver the most compelling insights into modern business challenges, spanning topics from management and technology to climate change, finance and economics. The winning author(s) will receive a £30,000 prize, with each shortlisted finalist awarded £10,000.
Publishers are encouraged to submit their works digitally, adhering to the specified submission deadlines.
The submission deadlines are:
For books published between 16 November 2024 and 31 May 2025, the deadline is 31 May 2025.
For books titles published between 1 June 2025 and 15 November 2025, submissions must be made by 30 June 2025.
The longlist will be published on 18 August, and the shortlist on 23 September, via a livestream from New York. The winner of this year’s award will be announced at an event in London on 3 December.
Previous winners of the book award include: Parmy Olson in 2024 for Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World, Amy Edmondson in 2023 for Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive, which aims to reframe failure and promote intelligent risk taking; Chris Miller in 2022 for Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, which explored the fight for semiconductors and the quest for supply chain resilience; Nicole Perlroth in 2021 for This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, an analysis of the threat posed by the arms race between cyber criminals, spies and hackers fighting to infiltrate essential computer systems; Sarah Frier in 2020 for No Filter, on the rise of Instagram; Caroline Criado Perez in 2019 for Invisible Women, her exposé of gender bias; John Carreyrou in 2018 for Bad Blood, about the Theranos scandal; and Amy Goldstein in 2017 for Janesville, which looks at the impact of plant closures on a Wisconsin town.
For more information about this year’s Business Book of the Year Award, visit businessbook.live.ft.com and follow the conversation at #BBYA25.
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Schroders is a global investment management firm with £750.6 billion (€866.2 billion; $956.9 billion) assets under management, as at 31 December 2023. Schroders continues to deliver strong financial results in ever challenging market conditions, with a market capitalisation of circa £7 billion and over 6,400 employees across 38 locations. Established in 1804, the founding family remains a core shareholder, holding approximately 44% of Schroders’ shares.
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Nikkei Inc. is a world-renowned media brand for Asian news, respected for quality journalism and for being a trusted provider of business news and information. Founded as a market news provider in Japan in 1876, Nikkei has grown into one of the world’s largest media corporations, with 37 foreign editorial bureaus and approximately 1,500 journalists worldwide. Nikkei acquired the UK-based Financial Times in 2015. Our combined digital and print circulation totals about 2.5 million, and we are continually deploying new technologies to increase our readership.