FT/Schroders accepting Business Book of the Year submissions

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 honors 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; and 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.

For more information about this year’s Business Book of the Year Award, visit businessbook.live.ft.com