Small Business Book Awards 2013 Nominations Open

Nominate your favorite business book in the 2013 Small Business Book Awards. The nomination deadline is March 3, 2013.

The 2013 Small Business Book Awards celebrate books for entrepreneurs, small business owners, CEOs, managers and their staffs.

This is the 5th year for these community Awards. In the past, almost 100,000 votes were cast by the community. Winners receive publicity and the right to display winners’ insignia on books, websites, brochures and elsewhere. Ten overall winners and 5 winners in each category will be named.

Nominating is fast — and free.

The Small Business Book Awards consist of two phases:

Phase 1 - Nomination: Anyone can nominate a business book or resource. All nominations are subject to editorial review and approval by the Editors of Small Business Trends, to ensure they meet eligibility criteria. Nominations open January 29, 2013 and close on March 3, 2013 at 11:59 pm Los Angeles time.

Phase 2 - Voting: Anyone can vote on the nominations. Voting takes place from March 4, 2013 through March 26, 2013 at 11:59 pm Los Angeles time. To vote, simply find the nominations of your choice and click on the "VOTE" button. Come back daily and vote. One vote per person, per nominee, per day. Vote for as many books / resources as you wish.

Nominate your choices for 2013 Small Business Book Awards here.

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Shortlist Announced for Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs today announced the shortlist for the eighth annual Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, now an essential calendar fixture for business people and authors alike. The award aims to identify the book providing the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.

This year's distinguished judges have chosen the six most influential business books in 2012:

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Crown Business, Profile Books)

• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
John Coates (The Penguin Press, Fourth Estate)

• Private Epmire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll (The Penguin Press, Allen Lane)

• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster; Little, Brown)

• What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets
Michael J. Sandel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Allen Lane)

• Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence
William L. Silber (Bloomsbury Press)

The judging panel, chaired by FT editor Lionel Barber, comprises:

· Vindi Banga, Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

· Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

· Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum

· Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission

· Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell

· Shriti Vadera, Director of Shriti Vadera Ltd, Non-Executive Director of BHP Billiton and AstraZeneca

Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, said: “The quality of submissions this year was outstanding, and we therefore have a very powerful shortlist. It has a strong emphasis on leadership and broader institutional and political issues, reflecting the mood of the world today.”

The winner will be announced at the award dinner on 1st November, co-hosted by Lionel Barber and Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York.

The winner of the Business Book of the Year Award 2012 will be awarded £30,000, and each of the remaining shortlisted authors will receive £10,000.

Previous winners of the award are: Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo for Poor Economics (2011); Raghuram Rajan for Fault Lines (2010); Liaquat Ahamed for The Lords of Finance (2009); Mohamed El-Erian for When Markets Collide (2008); William D. Cohan for The Last Tycoons (2007); James Kynge for China Shakes the World (2006); and Thomas Friedman, as the inaugural Award winner in 2005, for The World is Flat.

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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo Wins Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo today won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 for Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, published by PublicAffairs. The book is a journey into the multi-faceted and complex lives of the poor, based on over fifteen years of work the authors have done with the poor, trying to understand the specific problems that come with poverty – and to find proven solutions.

The Award, which aims to find the book that provides ‘the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues’, was presented today to Abhijit V. Banerjee at the Wallace Collection in London by Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times, and Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The keynote speaker was Lord Patten of Barnes, Chairman, BBC Trust.

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo share a £30,000 prize (about $47,926 as of today’s currency conversion rate). Each of the five runners-up received a check for £10,000 (about $15,975 as of today’s currency conversion rate), and can expect a heightened interest in their influential books.



Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times and Chair of the Panel of Judges, said: “I was blown away by the thoroughness of the empirical research. This is going to be a real basis for innovation in policy, innovation in government, and a guide to intellectual debate. This is a business book in the broadest sense.”

Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., commented: “This is an important and thoughtful book. It provides real insight into many of the fundamental issues that can help alleviate poverty. Poor Economics is a deserving winner.”

The distinguished judging panel for the 2011 Award was:

* Vindi Banga, Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

* Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

* Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission

* Mario Monti, President of Bocconi University, Milan, European chairman of the Trilateral Commission, honorary president of Bruegel

* Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Nokia and Royal Dutch Shell

* Shriti Vadera, Director of Shriti Vadera Ltd, Non-Executive Director of BHP Billiton and AstraZeneca

Lord Patten of Barnes added: "This prestigious literary award has helped to rescue the concept of "business books” from that pile of volumes at airport terminals which advise you, first, how to make the most of your attributes as a first-class underling, and second, never knowingly to underestimate the taste of the public. This prize, with its distinguished list of past winners, has transformed the whole notion of business literature."

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