| 2026 | Winner | Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work | Melissa Valentine, Michael S. Bernstein | MIT Press |
| 2025 | Winner | Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights | Michael H. Posner | New York University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions | Zongyuan Zoe Liu | Belknap Press |
| 2023 | Winner | Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets | Kimberly Kay Hoang | Princeton University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society | Andrew J. Hoffman | Stanford University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder | Margaret M. Chin | New York University Press |
| 2020 | Winner | The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West | Payal Arora | Harvard University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People | Donna Hicks | Yale University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought | Andrew W. Lo | Princeton University Press |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap | Mehrsa Baradaran | Harvard University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | The Disruption Dilemma | Joshua Gans | MIT Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper through Entrepreneurial Thinking | Jim Dewald | University of Toronto Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Appetite for Innovation: Creativity and Change at elBulli | M. Pilar Opazo | Columbia University Press |
| 2016 | Winner | Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology | Kentaro Toyama | PublicAffairs |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance | John Kay | PublicAffairs |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | The Process Matters: Engaging and Equipping People for Success | Joel Brockner | Princeton University Press |
| 2015 | Winner | Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit | Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber | Princeton University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance | Eswar S. Prasad | Princeton University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas | Michael Schrage | MIT Press |
| 2013 | Winner | The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It | Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig | Princeton University Press |
| 2012 | Winner | Finance and the Good Society | Robert J. Shiller | Princeton University Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us | James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr.,, Ross Levine | MIT Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth | Yossi Sheffi | MIT Press |
| 2008 | Winner | Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World | Amar Bhide | Princeton University Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits | Leslie Crutchfield, Heather McLeod Grant | Jossey-Bass |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | The Fundamental Index | Robert D. Arnott, Jason C. Hsu, John M. West | Wiley |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened & What to Do About It | Robert J. Shiller | Princeton University Press |
| 2007 | Winner | From Higher Aims to Hired Hands | Rakesh Khurana | Princeton University Press |
| 2007 | Honorable mention | A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation | Richard Bookstaber | Wiley |
| 2006 | Winner | Invisible Engines | David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, Richard Schmalensee | MIT Press |
| 2006 | Honorable mention | A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation | Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalak, Mona M. Clayton | Wiley |
| 2005 | Winner | The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929 | Elspeth H. Brown | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2004 | Winner | Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games | Han T.J. Smit, Lenos Trigeorgis | Princeton University Press |
| 2004 | Honorable mention | Applied Mergers and Acquisitions | Robert F. Bruner, Joseph R. Perella | Wiley |
| 2003 | Winner | Software Ecosystem | David G. Messerschmitt, Clemens Szyperski | MIT Press |
| 2003 | Honorable mention | Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility | Daniel Litvin. | Texere |
| 2002 | Winner | The Big Problem of Spare Change | Thomas Sargent, François Velde | Princeton University Press |
| 2002 | Honorable mention | Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis | Author: Ken Standfield | Elsevier |
| 1998 | Winner | The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship | Juliet E. K. Walker | Macmillan |
| 1997 | Winner | Failure and Forgiveness | Karen Gross | Yale University Press |
| 1996 | Winner | Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organization | Roger Coate, Craig Murphy | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| 1996 | Winner | The American Corporation Today | Carl Kaysen | Oxford University Press |
| 1995 | Winner | The Knowledge-Creating Company | Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi | Oxford University Press |
| 1995 | Honorable mention | Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation | Dorothy Leonard-Barton | Harvard Business School Press |
| 1994 | Winner | KEIRETSU: Inside the Hidden Japanese Conglomerates | Kenichi Miyashita, David Russell | McGraw-Hill |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | Leadership Without Easy Answers | Ronald A. Heifetz | Harvard University Press |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 | AnnaLee Saxenian | Harvard University Press |
| 1993 | Winner | Common Knowledge | Jeffrey M. Perl | Oxford University Press |
| 1993 | Winner | Mass Customization | B. Joseph Pine II | Harvard Business School Press |
| 1992 | Winner | Intelligent Enterprise | James Brian Quinn | Simon & Schuster |
| 1991 | Winner | Entrepreneurs in High Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond | Edward B. Roberts | Oxford University Press |