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BBLF CK Prahalad Best
Business Book Award

CK Prahalad

This annual award was instituted in 2017 in memory of late management guru Professor CK Prahalad. It recognizes and rewards the most original, impactful and thought-provoking business books written by Indian authors.

Winners

Award Winners

2024

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2023

Naushad Forbes
Struggle and the Promise

2022

nitin-seth
winning-in-the-digital-age

2021

Parmesh Sahani
Queeristan - LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace

2020

Mihir Dalal
Big Billion Startup - The Untold Flipkar

2019

Alok Kejriwal
why-i-stopped-wearing-socks-original-ima

2018

Subroto Bagchi
Sell Book
2024

Shortlist 2024

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Jury

Jury 2024

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Prof Mukesh Sud

Visiting Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, Ashoka University, Author, Entrepreneur
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Madhur Singh

Communications Consultant, Journalist, Festival Curator
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Bhupendra Sharma

Business Leader Coach

Shortlist 2023

2023
Struggle and the Promise
Indomitable
Maverick effect
Rahul Bajaj book
Lala Company
Jury

Jury 2023

IIMB Prof G Raghuram

Prof. G Raghuram

Former Director, IIM Bangalore Former Dean, IIM Ahmedabad
Mekin-Maheshwari

Mekin Maheshwari

Founder - Udhyam Learning Foundation
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Stuthi Vijayaraghavan

Founder - Urban Venture Labs

2022

Shortlist 2022

how-i-quit-google-to-sell-samosas
elephants-and-cheetahs
winning-in-the-digital-age
An incomplete life
the new rules of business
Jury

Jury 2022

Rishikesh Krishnan

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan

Author, Director, IIM Bangalore
Jessie Paul

Jessie Paul

Author, Marketing Expert
Malavika R Harita

Malavika Harita

Former CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi Focus and Founder, Brand Circle

Shortlist 2021

2021
Queeristan - LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace
Azim Premji
No limits
design-your-thinking
Pandemonium - The Great Indian Banking Tragedy
Jury

Jury

Rishikesh Krishnan

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan

Author, Director, IIM Bangalore
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Rama Bijapurkar

Author, Thought Leader on Market Strategy
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Peter Yorke

Leader in Business Communications

Shortlist 2020

2020
Saying No to Jugaad - The Making of Bigb
Bridgital Nation - Solving Technology's
How I Almost Blew It
The CEO Factory - Management Lessons fro
Big Billion Startup - The Untold Flipkar
Jury

Jury

Rishikesh Krishnan

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan

Author, Director, IIM Bangalore
Manish Sabarwal

Manish Sabharwal

Chairman, TeamLease Services
Narayan Ramachandran

Narayan Ramachandran

Writer, social entrepreneur, columnist 

Meena-Raghunathan

Meena Raghunathan

Advisor CSR, Skills, Writer, Editor

Shortlist 2019

2019
why-i-stopped-wearing-socks-original-ima
No shortcuts
are you the leder you want to be
the made in inida manager
dont startup
Jury

Jury 2019

harish baijoor

Harish Bijoor

CEO, Harish Bijoor Consults

Rishikesh Krishnan

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan

Author, Faculty, IIM Bangalore
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K Giriprakash

Author, Senior Journalist, The Hindu Businessline

 

Shortlist 2018

2018
Sell Book
Gods own kitchen
God's own kitchen
Jury

Jury 2018

harish baijoor

Harish Bijoor

CEO, Harish Bijoor Consults

 

R Sriram

R. Sriram

Management Consulting
Priya Chetty Rajagopal

Priya Chetty-Rajagopal

Founder, Multiversal Advisory

 

Acknowledgement

The BBLF team acknowledges the contribution of the following people to the process of instituting the BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award.

S Visvanathan, Former Senior Executive Director (South), Kantar IMRB, for his help in finalising the selection methodology.

Sangeeta Mansur for her sharp insights on the selection criterion.

Debarati Ghosh for painstakingly shortlisting the books under the popular criteria.

The BBLF team is grateful to the Jury for their time.

 

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