Toronto – A professor from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, along with his co-author, are finalists for the Bracken Bower Prize for book proposals.
The prize, sponsored by the Financial Times and McKinsey, is awarded to the best business book proposal by an author aged under 35.
András Tilcsik is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and a Fellow at the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School. Christopher Clearfield is a principal at System Logic, an independent research and consulting firm. Their proposal,
“Rethinking the Unthinkable. Managing the Risk of Catastrophic Failure in the Twenty-First Century,” was among 11 proposals shortlisted for the prize. Excerpts from the three finalists were posted to FT.com today.
The winner, who will receive £15,000, will be announced on November 17 at a dinner in New York, where the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award will also be announced.
Christopher Clearfield is a principal at System Logic, an independent research and consulting firm focusing on the challenges posed by risk and complexity. Previously, he worked as a derivatives trader at a proprietary trading firm in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, where he analysed and devised mitigations for the financial and regulatory risks inherent in the business of technologically complex high-speed trading. He has written about catastrophic failure, technology, and finance for The Guardian, Forbes, the Harvard Kennedy School Review, the popular science magazine Nautilus, and the Harvard Business Review blog. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College, where he studied physics and biology, and is a licensed pilot.
András Tilcsik is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and a Fellow at the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship. His research has been published in leading scholarly journals, cited in testimonies to committees of the U.S. Congress, and recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association. At the Rotman School, he has developed “Catastrophic Failure in Organizations,” an award-winning elective course, which he teaches to MBA and undergraduate business students. A native of Hungary, he completed his Ph.D., A.M., and A.B. at Harvard University.
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