The Winners
Who Are the Giants of Modern Thought?
Each year, getAbstract assesses more than 10,000 English and German non-fiction books. From these, it selects 10 finalists, then our expert jury honors the winners in both language categories. Since 2020, the public can cast their votes for the Readers' Choice Award. And this year, they can also cast their vote in the Learning Impact category.
Did You Know…?
Since 2001, getAbstract has awarded the prize to several esteemed authors, including Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Robert J. Shiller, Benoît Mandelbrot and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, as well as their publishers. Below you'll find the outstanding winners of this prestigious award.
BOOK AWARD
Michael Carolan is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University, where he co-founded the Food Systems Institute for Research, Engagement and Learning.
READERS' CHOICE
David Cooperrider serves as the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Audrey Selian runs Artha Impact, an environmental and socially responsible investing firm.
HAUPTPREIS (GER)
Eckhard Jann is a pilot, safety manager and originator of an accident investigator course in German aviation. Jann is also active as a lecturer.
PUBLIKUMSPREIS (GER)
Sebastian Purps-Pardigol is a coach, organizational consultant and speaker.
NEW: LEARNING IMPACT AWARD
Summary
BOOK AWARD
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Princeton University emeritus professor Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and wrote the bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow. Former McKinsey senior partner Olivier Sibony is a professor of strategy at HEC Paris and Saïd Business School, Oxford, and wrote You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake! Senior counselor in the Department of Homeland Security for the Biden administration and Harvard professor Cass R. Sunstein wrote the bestseller The World According to Star Wars.
READERS' CHOICE
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Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez is a Stanford University and PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium graduate, a board-certified leadership coach and psychologist.
HAUPTPREIS (GER)
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Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim ist Chemikerin und als Wissenschaftsjournalistin und Fernsehmoderatorin tätig. Darüber hinaus betreibt sie einen erfolgreichen YouTube-Kanal.
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Gudrun Happich unterstützt als Executive Business Coach Führungskräfte verschiedener Hierarchiestufen in Wirtschaftsunternehmen.
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle professor at the Harvard Business School and co-founder of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee und Esther Duflo are professors of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Along with Michael Kremer, they won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Veronika Hucke war als Führungskraft für Unternehmen wie Philips oder HP tätig und berät seit 2015 Unternehmen zu Fragen von Inklusion und Diversität.
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Clemens Fuest ist Präsident des ifo Instituts. Vorher war er Präsident des Zentrums für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) in Mannheim und Vorsitzender des wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium der Finanzen.
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Jonathan Tepper is an acclaimed author of three books and founder of The Variant Group, a macroeconomic research group. Denise Hearn, former Head of Business Development for the Variant Group, is a renowned speaker and presenter.
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Dan Pontefract is an acclaimed keynote speaker, leadership strategist, and best-selling author of three books. He founded The Pontefract Group and is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business.
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Kai Strittmatter, studierter Sinologie, war für die „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ während 15 Jahren Korrespondent in Peking, zwischenzeitlich berichtete er über die Türkei und Griechenland. Heute ist Strittmatter Skandinavien-Korrespondent für die Zeitung.
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Benedikt Herles studierte Volks- und Betriebswirtschaftslehre und promovierte über das Entstehen ökonomischer Werte. Als Start-up-Investor ist er weltweit unterwegs und erlebt die wissenschaftlich-technologischen Revolutionen an vorderster Front.
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Rick Peterson is a Longtime Major League Baseball Pitching Coach and Judd Hoekstra is a vice president at The Ken Blanchard Companies.
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Adam Greenfield, also the author of Against the Smart City, taught in the Urban Design Program of the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. He was head of design for Nokia; an information architect in Tokyo; a rock critic for SPIN Magazine; a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic; and a sergeant in the US Army’s Special Operations Command.
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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger war Professor in Harvard und hat heute den Lehrstuhl für Internet Governance in Oxford inne. Er ist auch Autor des Bestsellers Big Data. Thomas Ramge ist Journalist und Autor mehrerer erfolgreicher Bücher, darunter Die Flicks, das 2004 mit dem getAbstract International Book Award ausgezeichnet wurde.
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Martin J. Eppler ist Direktor des MCM-Instituts für Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement an der Universität St. Gallen. Sebastian Kernbach ist Dozent in St. Gallen und Leiter des Visual Collaboration Labs.