Media studies researcher Andrea Benoit, shown in this undated handout image, is the winner of this year's National Business Book Award.Media studies researcher Andrea Benoit is the winner of this year’s National Business Book Award.
The doctoral candidate at Western University received the $30,000 honour for her look at corporate philanthropy in the cosmetics industry.Viva MAC: AIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MAC CosmeticsStory continues below advertisement Benoit, an academic review officer in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science, was recognized at a virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday.
Founded in 1985, the National Business Book Award toasts the best business-related title published the previous year.Reinvention: Changing Your Life, Your Career, Your Future; and labour activist John Stefanini for More Than We Bargained For: An Untold Story of Exploitation, Redemption, and The Men Who Built a Worker’s Empire