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National Business Book Award

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Date
  
1985 - Present

Country
  
Canada

Currently held by
  
Chrystia Freeland

Location
  
Toronto

Reward(s)
  
20,000 C$

Presented by
  
PricewaterhouseCoopersBMOThe Globe and Mail

The National Business Book Award is an award presented to Canadian business authors. The award, presented every year since 1985, is sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Bank of Montreal, and the Globe and Mail.

Among the six jury members is jury chairman Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Also in the jury are Peter Mansbridge, Chief Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBC News and Pamela Wallin, a Conservative sitting in the Canadian Senate.

Winners

  • 2013: Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Doubleday Canada, 2012, ISBN 1-5942-0409-8)
  • 2012 : Bruce Philp, Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World (McLelland & Steward, 2011, ISBN 0-7710-7002-0)
  • 2011 : Ezra Levant, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands (McLelland & Stewart, 2010, ISBN 0-7710-4641-3)
  • 2010 : Jeff Rubin, Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization (Random House, 2009, ISBN 1-4000-6850-9)
  • 2009 : Gordon Pitts, Stampede!: The Rise of the West and Canada's New Power Elite (Key Porter Books, 2008, ISBN 1-55470-120-1)
  • 2008 : William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) (Knopf Canada, 2007, ISBN 0-676-97913-0)
  • 2007 : Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Island Press, 2006, ISBN 1-59726-064-9)
  • 2006 : Matthew Bellamy, Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7735-2815-6)
  • 2005 : Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart, Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black (Overlook Hardcover, 2004, ISBN 1-58567-636-5)
  • 2004 : Kim Vicente, The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live With Technology (Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-97891-2)
  • 2003 : Douglas Hunter, The Bubble and The Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream (Doubleday Canada, 2002, ISBN 0-385-65918-0)
  • 2002 : John Lawrence Reynolds, Free Rider (McArthur & Company Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1-55278-235-2)
  • 2001 : Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Knopf Canada, 2000, ISBN 0-312-20343-8)
  • 2000 : Ingeborg Boyens, Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food (Doubleday Canada, 2000, ISBN 0-385-25789-9)
  • 1999 : Jennifer Wells, Fever: The Dark Mystery of the Bre-X Gold Rush (Viking, 1998, ISBN 0-670-87815-4)
  • 1998 : Anthony Bianco, The Reichmanns - Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia and York (Random House, 1998, ISBN 0-8129-3063-0)
  • 1997 : Rod McQueen, Who Killed Confederation Life?: The Inside Story (McClelland & Stewart, 1996, ISBN 0-7710-5631-1)
  • 1996 : Heather Robertson, Driving Force: The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car (McClelland & Stewart, 1995, ISBN 0-7710-7556-1)
  • 1995 : Anne Kingston, The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President's Choice and the Making of Popular Taste (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1995, ISBN 0-921912-94-3)
  • 1994 : Duncan McDowall, Quick to the Frontier: Canada's Royal Bank (McClelland & Stewart, 1993, ISBN 0-7710-5504-8)
  • 1993 : Peter Foster, Self-Serve: How Petro-Canada Pumped Canadians Dry (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1992, ISBN 0-921912-38-2)
  • 1992 : G. Bruce Doern and Brian W. Tomlin, Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story (Stoddart, 1991, ISBN 0-7737-2534-2)
  • 1991 : Ann Gibbon and Peter Hadekel, Steinberg: The Breakup of a Family Empire (Macmillan of Canada, 1990, ISBN 0-7715-9102-0)
  • 1990 : Ian Brown, Freewheeling: the Feuds, Broods, and Outrageous Fortunes of the Billes Family and Canada's Favorite Company (HarperCollins Canada, 1989, ISBN 0-00-215977-5)
  • 1989 : Greig Steward, Shutting Down the National Dream (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1988, ISBN 0-07-549675-5
  • 1988 : Michael Bliss, Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business (McClelland & Stewart, 1990, ISBN 0-7710-1569-0)
  • 1987 : Philip Smith, Harvest from the Rock: A History of Mining in Ontario (Macmillan of Canada, 1986, ISBN 0-7715-9705-3)
  • 1986 : Ann Shortell and Patricia Best, A Matter of Trust (Penguin Books, 1986, ISBN 0-14-007721-9)

    • References

    National Business Book Award Wikipedia
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