What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet (Belknap Press) has won the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year Award for 2016. Bohnet is a behavioral economist at Harvard University, where she is a professor, director of the Women and Public Policy Program, and co-chair of the Behavioral Insights Group at the Kennedy School of Government.
800-CEO-READ praised the book for presenting "perhaps the most comprehensive roadmap ever written to making equality in the workplace a reality." And general manager Sally Haldorson said What Works "should be required reading for all leaders and managers in any organization because Bohnet offers applicable and executable advice that will make a real difference in how you achieve your goals for a diverse and equitable workplace, and, in turn, benefit from access to the full expanse of talent and opportunity available."
In addition, Hollis Heimbouch, v-p and publisher at Harper Business, won the third annual Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry. Covert, founder and former president of 800-CEO-READ, said upon choosing Heimbouch for the award, "I always looked forward to seeing Hollis to find out what I was going to be selling the next season. Hollis has a great track record but she's never complacent. She's open to new ideas and constantly pushing the genre forward."
Under Heimbouch's leadership, Harper Business has published two 800-CEO-READ Business Books of the Year: 2011 winner Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen and 2014 winner The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael S. Malone.
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The winners of the Jewish Book Council's 2016 National Jewish Book Awards have been announced. The Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award was given to Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis (Ecco). Michael Chabon is the winner of JBC's Modern Literary Achievement Award "for his general contribution to modern Jewish literature, including his most recent work, Moonglow (Harper)."
Rose Tremain took the J.J. Greenberg Fiction Award for The Gustav Sonata (Norton). Lauren Belfer became the first recipient of the Debby & Ken Miller Book Club Award for her work And After the Fire (Harper); and Gavriel Savit won the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction for Anna and the Swallow Man (Knopf Books for Young Readers). Other winners and runners-up in several categories can be seen here. The winners will be honored on March 7 in New York City.
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Jennifer L. Holm won the $5,000 Scott O'Dell Award, which recognizes a "distinguished work of historical fiction for young people published by a U.S. publisher and set in the Americas," for her novel Full of Beans (Random House Books for Young Readers ), the Horn Book magazine reported. The award was created in 1982 by O'Dell (best known as the author of The Island of the Blue Dolphins) and Zena Sutherland and is now administered by Elizabeth Hall.