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Pakistani wins business book prize – again!

Winner: Mehran Gul getting his prize from Lionel Barber (left), editor of the Financial Times, and Dominic Barton, global managing partner, McKinsey & Co

By: Rithika Siddhartha

  By Amit Roy   MEHRAN Gul got the best possible gift he could imagine for his 33rd birthday last week – the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize. This was established in 2014 by the Financial Times newspaper and the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co, and is given to someone under 35 whose 5,000-word proposal for a business book is judged to be the best. Gul “beat a record number of entries from 26 countries on topics ranging from technology, to gender, to the ethics of business,” the judges said. The prize is named after Brendan Bracken, chairman of the…

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