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    ABOUT THE AWARD

    2020 Business Book Of The Year Award Winner

    AUTHOR:  SARAH FRIER

    Publisher: Random House Business (UK); Simon & Schuster (US)


    No Filter tells the story of the rise of Instagram and how, in just a decade, it became the immense social and cultural influence it is today. Sarah Frier brings us behind-the-scenes access to the app’s co-founders and some of its biggest influencers. From its humble beginnings as ‘Burbn’, to being bought by Facebook for $715 million - a deal arranged over just one weekend at a barbeque in Mark Zuckerberg’s back garden - disputes and successes are laid bare.

    No Filter investigates the role Instagram has played in shaping global business, with its modern ‘influencer’ economy and business model that sells an aspirational lifestyle to its users. Frier looks at the impact the app has had on popular culture and how it has warped our understanding of celebrity, putting pressure on its users to perform online. Buying Instagram was the most successful investment Facebook ever made. But, as Frier explains, we’re still learning about what it has cost the rest of us.

    the shortlist

    Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    by Anne Case & Angus Deaton

    Princeton University Press (UK) & (US)


    No Filter: The inside story of how Instagram transformed business, celebrity and our culture

    by Sarah Frier

    Random House Business (UK); Simon & Schuster (US)




    No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

    by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer

    WH Allen, Penguin Random House (UK); Penguin Press (US)

    Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World

    by Rebecca Henderson

    Penguin Business, Penguin Random House (UK); PublicAffairs (US)


    If Then: How one Data Company Invented the Future

    by Jill Lepore

    John Murray Press (UK); W.W. Norton (US)

    A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond

    by Daniel Susskind

    Allen Lane (UK); Metropolitan Books (US)

    The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award was established in 2005. Now in its 16th year, the Award is recognised as the leading business book award and continues to build on its reputation for highlighting ground breaking books which explore important business and economic issues. The Award is given to the book that the judges agree provides ‘the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics.’


    The winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award will receive £30,000 and the other finalists will receive £10,000.


    CONVERSATIONS WITH THE 2020 LONGLIST

    WHY DID YOU WRITE THIS BOOK? 

    WHY IS YOUR BOOK RELEVANT? 

    WHAT IS THE ONE LESSON LEADERS SHOULD TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR BOOK?

    AWARD JUDGES

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    MB
    Mitchell Baker
    Chief Executive Officer, Mozilla Corporation
    Chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation
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    ME
    Mohamed El-Erian
    President of Queens' College, Cambridge University
    Chief Economic Advisor of Allianz
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    HI
    Herminia Ibarra
    Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    London Business School
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    RK
    Roula Khalaf
    Editor
    Financial Times
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    Randall Kroszner
    Norman R Bobbins Professor of Economics & Deputy Dean for Executive Programs
    University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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    Dr Dambisa Moyo
    Global Economist & Author
    Non-Executive Board Member of 3M, Chevron & Conde Nast
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    RN
    Raju Narisetti
    Global Publishing Director
    McKinsey & Company
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    Shriti Vadera
    Chair-Elect
    Prudential Plc

    2019 winner: invisible women, CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ

    2018 winner: bad blood, John Carreyrou

    2017 WINNER: Janesville, Amy Goldstein


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