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742 pages
ISBN 9780767919791 Published April 2008
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Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
By William D Cohan 

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The FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award Longlist
Posted Aug. 19, 2011 5:35 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

Understandably (looking at the award sponsors), the FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award always tends more toward macroeconomics, high finance and big business. But they always seem to pick well, and I always find books I feel the need to revisit when they announce their list.

Just in case you missed the announcement of the the award's longlist as I did, it is:

FT's Andrew Hill writes of the list:

If there is a theme that links most of the 14 titles on the longlist for the 2011 Business Book of the Year Award it is their authors’ quest to work out how and why companies, governments and their leaders fail—and how not to go wrong in future.

Thomas Friedman has won the award before so it will be interesting to see if he moves on to the shortlist, which will be announced in September. The award's past winners are:

We are currently accepting submissions for our awards. You can find the details and entry form at www.800ceoread.com/bookawards. And for our past winners, head on over to our awards page.



A Call For Submissions to the The FT/Goldman Sachs Book Awards
Posted May 10, 2011 6:52 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

The call is on for submissions to the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. From the press release:

Now in its seventh year, the award is firmly established as a feature of the business and publishing calendars. [...] The 2011 award will be decided by a panel of judges, who will select a shortlist of up to six titles in September. They will consider titles published for the first time in the English language between 16 November 2010 and 15 November 2011, spanning the whole range of economics, management, business and finance. [...] The closing date for submissions is June 30 2011.

You can submit your book online or download the submissions rules and forms (a pdf) from FT.com.

We've been following the award since they began handing it out in 2005. The list of books they've chosen is understandably more high-finance and Wall Street centric than ours picks here at 800-CEO-READ have been (we tend to focus more on small business and entrepreneurship), but beginning with the choice of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat in their inaugural year, they have always chosen very worthy candidates. The previous winners are:

And with Goldman Sachs behind the award, they can afford a fair amount of luxury when handing it out.

This year, the winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award will receive £30,000, while the prize money for up to five other shortlisted authors is £10,000 each. [...] This year’s awards ceremony and dinner—attended by top names from the worlds of finance, economics, business, media and publishing—will take place in London on November 3 2011.

We’ll be calling for submissions to our awards later this Summer, and will keep you updated on the FT/Goldman Sachs Award as they announce their shortlist and winner later this year.



Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year - The Longlist
Posted Aug. 12, 2009 10:40 a.m. by dylan
In General Business - 800 CEO Read Blog

The longlist for the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. The press release states that "The award is designed to highlight the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance, and economics."

The books on the longlist are:

The shortlist will be announced in September, and the overall winner will be announced at gala dinner in London at the end of October. We will, of course, keep you informed of further developments.



Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
Posted Oct. 15, 2008 9:06 a.m. by dylan
In Book Awards - 800 CEO Read Blog

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year was announced last night at a Gala Dinner in New York, and congratulations are in order for Mr. Mohamed El-Erian. He has won the prize for his book When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change.

Editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber, said of the book:

When Markets Collide brings together the world of modern finance and macro-economics. It is lucid and prescient in its diagnosis of the present financial turmoil and offers important prescriptions for the way forward. A worthy fourth winner for our annual book prize.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd C Blankfein, said:

Mohamed El-Erian provides invaluable context for the global financial crisis and does so in an extremely accessible and compelling way. When Markets Collide deserves to be this year's winner.

El-Erian beat out a strong shortlist this year, including:

  • A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

    by William J. Bernstein, April 2008, Atlantic Monthly Press

  • Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry

    by Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey, Little Brown Book Group UK (not yet available in the US)

  • McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

    by Misha Glenny, April 2008, Knopf

  • Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

    by Lawrence Lessig, April 2008, The Penguin Press

  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

    by Alice Schroeder, September 2008, Bantam

    • 2007's winner was The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan, which we recognized as the top industry book of the year in our first annual awards.

    The winner in 2006 was China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future--And the Challenge for America by James Kynge. You can find Jack's review of that book here.

    Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat won the very first award in 2006.



    Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
    Posted Sept. 18, 2008 8:02 a.m. by dylan
    In Book Awards - 800 CEO Read Blog

    The shortlist for the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award has been announced.

    Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, says of the finalists:

    We chose from an outstanding selection of books. The finalists address what we think are the most important global issues spanning a broad array of industries and disciplines.

    Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times comments:

    At no time has there been a greater need for books that provide an insight into modern business issues.

    We couldn't agree more.

    Their shortlist is:




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