The Winner | 2024

Parmy Olson wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year.

 Supremacy, Parmy Olson’s timely and in-depth exploration of the rivalry between the founders of artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind, has won the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. The book is the fourth winner in the past five years of the prize to focus on technology and the business, economic, social and geopolitical implications of the sector’s rapid expansion. Olson received the £30,000 prize at a dinner in London on Thursday, which also celebrated 20 years of the prestigious award.

The Shortlist

FT Editor Roula Khalaf has announced the Business Book of the Year six finalists for 2024. Many congratulations to our shortlisted authors. Join us in-person and online on Monday 9 December for the winner’s ceremony in London. 

The Longlist

We are delighted to showcase the 16 longlist books for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. This year's book titles shed new light on some of the most pressing business issues of the moment.

Business Book of the Year Award 2024: winners pick their favourites

A look back to celebrate the 20th edition of the Financial Times and Schroders award.

The Winner | 2023

Amy Edmondson has won the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award for Right Kind of Wrong, about how to learn from failure and take better risks.

Her book won over the judges with its systematic, richly illustrated exploration of how to build on “intelligent failure” and its critique of the craze for failure that often hypnotises entrepreneurs and innovators.Harvard Business School professor Edmondson is best known for her research into “psychological safety”. Right Kind of Wrong is the first mainstream management book to win the £30,000 award, now in its 19th year.

Schroders sponsors the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award

Global asset manager Schroders has entered a new three-year partnership with the Financial Times that will take the prestigious Business Book of the Year Award into its third decade.

Deadline nears for FT’s annual book prize

The search for 2023’s ‘most compelling and enjoyable’ business title is under way.

The great chip war — and the challenge for global diplomacy

The winner of the 2022 FT Business Book of the Year Award throws a spotlight on the battle for semiconductor supremacy.

Account of the global chip battle wins FT book prize

Chris Miller’s ‘Chip War’ digs into the fight for semiconductor supremacy.

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