The FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Longlist
August 07, 2013
The Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year longlist has been announced. It is, as Andrew Hill of the FT writes, a reading list that mixes low deeds and high hopes (registration required). The list includes: After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan Blinder, The Penguin Press The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin, The Penguin Press Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund by Anita Raghavan, Business Plus The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business by Rita Gunther McGrath, Harvard Business Review Press The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím, Basic Books The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, Little Brown and Company Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant, Viking Books The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton, Princeton University Press How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell, Grove Press Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf Publishing Group Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy by Iain Martin, Simon and Schuster (I don't see that this is being released in the U.
- After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan Blinder, The Penguin Press
- The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin, The Penguin Press
- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schnberger & Kenneth Cukier, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund by Anita Raghavan, Business Plus
- The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business by Rita Gunther McGrath, Harvard Business Review Press
- The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moiss Nam, Basic Books
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, Little Brown and Company
- Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant, Viking Books
- The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton, Princeton University Press
- How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell, Grove Press
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf Publishing Group
- Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy by Iain Martin, Simon and Schuster (I don't see that this is being released in the U.S.)
- The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office by Tim Sullivan & Ray Fisman, Twelve
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir, Times Books