Promising young business authors are being sought for the FT and McKinsey’s Bracken Bower Prize - the prize is awarded to the best proposal for a book about the challenges and opportunities of growth by an author aged under 35, and Strathclyde Business School’s Sreevas Sahasranamam was shortlisted for the prize in 2018.
The Prize aims to discover, support and promote promising young authors of the business books of the future. The Prize is named after Brendan Bracken and Marvin Bower, architects of, respectively, the modern FT and McKinsey .
The proposed book should aim to provide a compelling and enjoyable insight into future trends in business, economics, finance or management. The judges will seek to identify authors who write with knowledge, creativity, originality and style and whose proposed books promise to break new ground or examine pressing business challenges in original ways.
The winner will receive an award of £15,000, intended to fuel further research leading to publication of a full-length work. The winner and any selected runners-up will be announced at the Business Book of the Year Award dinner in London on December 1.
One copy of the proposal must be submitted online [live.ft.com/brackenbower], or sent by email to ftlive@ft.com by no later than 5pm on September 30. The proposal should be no more than 5000 words and there is no charge to enter. Register here and the FT will send on a guide on how to write a winning proposal. More information is available here