This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate. Click The Business History Conference for information about the sponsors of this award.
2024 Banking on Slavery Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Murphy
2023 Merchants : The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 by Edmond Smith
2022 Tea war : a history of capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu
2021 Porcelain : a history from the heart of Europe by Suzanne Marchand
2020 News from Germany : the competition to control world communications, 1900-1945 by Heidi J. S. Tworek
2019 City of debtors : a century of fringe finance by Anne Fleming; Feeding the world : Brazil's transformation into a modern agricultural economy by Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna (honorable mention)
2018 Fraud : an American history from Barnum to Madoff by Edward Balleisen
2017 Margins of the market : trafficking and capitalism across the Arabian Sea by Johan Mathew; Destructive creation : American business and the winning of World War II by Mark Wilson; Money changes everything : how finance made civilization possible by William N. Goetzmann (honorable mention)
2016 Ensuring America's health : the public creation of the corporate health care system by Christy Ford Chapin
2015 Between monopoly and free trade : the English East India Company, 1600-1757 by Emily Erikson
2015 The American synthetic organic chemicals industry : war and politics, 1910-1930 by Kathryn Steen
2014 Risk : negotiating safety in American society by Arwen Mohun
2013 Shareholder democracies? : corporate governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850 by Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor; Mahogany : the costs of luxury in early America by Jennifer L. Anderson (honorable mention);
Article Prize Recipient: Trading facts : Arrow's fundamental paradox and the origins of Global News Networks by Gerben Bakker
2012 Railroaded : the transcontinentals and the making of modern America by Richard White; The business of empire : United Fruit, race, and U.S. expansion in Central America by Jason Colby (honorable mention); The company-state : corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern (honorable mention)
Article Prize Recipient: Latex and blood : science, markets, and American empire by Gregg Mitman and Paul Erickson
2011 Network nation : inventing American telecommunications by Richard R. John; So great a proffit : how the East Indies trade transformed Anglo-American capitalism by James R. Fichter (honorable mention)
The Berry-AMA Book Prize for the Best Book in Marketing recognizes books whose innovative ideas have had significant impact on marketing and related fields. Created by distinguished author and professor Leonard L. Berry and his wife Nancy F. Berry through generous contributions to the American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF), the prize was awarded for the first time in Fall 2002. Berry, founder of Texas A&M’s Center for Retailing Studies, and a Visiting Scientist at Mayo Clinic studying healthcare service, has been identified as the most frequent contributor to the services marketing literature in the United States. Click American Marketing Association Foundation for more information about the sponsors of this award.
2023 Using Behavioral Science in Marketing: Drive Customer Action and Loyalty by Prompting Instinctive Responses by Nancy Harhut
2022 Getting price right : the behavioral economics of profitable pricing by Gerald Smith
2021 The intelligent marketer's guide to data privacy : the impact of big data on customer trust by Kelly D. Martin and Robert W. Palmatier
2020 Legacy in the making : building a long-term brand to stand out in a short-term world by Mark Miller and Lucas Conley; Global brand strategy : world-wise marketing in the age of branding by Jan-Benedict Steenkamp
2019 The organic growth playbook : activating high-yield behaviors to achieve extraordinary results every time by Bernard Kaworski and Robert Lurie
2018 Hit makers : the science of popularity in an age of distraction by Derek Thompson
2017 No winner
2016 Co-Winners: Absolute value : what really influences customers in the age of (nearly) perfect information by Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen; The business of choice : marketing to consumers' instincts by Matthew Willcox
2015 Brand premium : how smart brands make more money by Nigel Hollis
2014 Contagious : why things catch on by Jonah Berger
2013 Co-Winners: The face-to-face book : why real relationships rule in a digital marketplace by Ed Keller and Brad Fay; To sell is human : the surprising truth about moving others by Daniel Pink
2012 How cool brands stay hot : branding to Generation Y by Joeri Van den Bergh and Mattias Behrer
2011 Co-Winners: Strategy from the outside in : profiting from customer value by George S. Day and Christine Moorman; Data-driven marketing : the 15 metrics everyone in marketing should know by Mark Jeffery
2010 The distribution trap : keeping your innovations from becoming commodities by Andrew R. Thomas and Timothy J. Wilkinson
2009 Groundswell : winning in a world transformed by social technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
2008 Hidden in plain sight : how to find and execute your company's next real growth strategy by Erich Joachimsthaler
2007 The 86 percent solution : how to succeed in the biggest market opportunity of the next 50 years by Vijay Mahajan and Kamini Banga
2006 Managing customers as investments : the strategic value of customers in the long run by Sunil Gupta and Donald R. Lehmann
2005 Simply better : winning and keeping customers by delivering what matters most by Patrick Barwise and Seán Meehan
2004 Trading up : the new American luxury by Michael J. Silverstein and Neil Fiske
2003 Will & vision : how latecomers grow to dominate markets by Gerard J. Tellis and Peter N. Golder
2002 Driving customer equity : how customer lifetime value is reshaping corporate strategy by Roland T. Rust, Valarie A. Zeithaml, and Katherine N. Lemon
The prize goes to the book that is judged to have provided the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues. Click Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year for more information about this award.
2023 Right kind of wrong by Amy Edmondson
2022 Chip war : the fight for the world's most critical technology by Chris Miller
2021 This is how they tell me the world ends : the cyber weapons arms race by Nicole Perlroth
2020 No filter : the inside story of Instragram by Sarah Frier
2019 Invisible women : exposing data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Perez
2018 Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup by John Carreyrou
2017 Janesville : an American story by Amy Goldstein
2016 The man who knew : the life and times of Alan Greespan by Sebastian Mallaby
2015 Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future by Martin Ford
2014 Capital in the twenty-first century by Thomas Piketty
2013 The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon by Brad Stone
2012 Private empire : ExxonMobil and American power by Steve Coll
2011 Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
2010 Fault lines : how hidden fractures still threaten the world economy by Raghuram G. Rajan
2009 Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world by Liaquat Ahamed
2008 When markets collide : investment strategies for the age of global economic change by Mohamed El-Erian
2007 The last tycoons : the secret history of Lazard Frères and Co. by William D. Cohan
2006 China shakes the world : a titan's rise and troubled future and the challenge for America by James Kynge
2005 The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century by Thomas Friedman (updated ed. (2007) here)
The Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award is granted annually to the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the global advancement of management knowledge during the last two years. Books that contribute to the advancement of management theory, conceptualization, research, or practice are eligible for this prestigious award. Click Academy of Management for information about the sponsor of this award.
2024 Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work by Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston
2023 How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy by Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo
2022 Power, for all : how it really works and why it's everyone's business by Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro
2021 Constructing organizational life : how social-symbolic work shapes selves, organizations, and institutions by Thomas B. Lawrence and Nelson Phillips
2020 Taking the floor : models, morals, and management in a Wall Street trading room by Daniel Beunza
2019 Meltdown : why our systems fail and what we can do about it by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik
2018 Ringtone : exploring the rise and fall of Nokia in mobile phones by Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson
2017 Working law : courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights by Lauren B. Edelman
2016 Trust in a complex world : enriching community by Charles Heckscher
2015 A process theory of organization by Tor Hernes
2014 The fracturing of the American corporate elite by Mark S. Mizruchi
