Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley	"The Business of American Business Education: Nineteenth-Century American Commercial Colleges"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jeffrey Rubel, New York University	"In Search of Love: The Business of Personal Ads in Late 20th Century America"
2026 BHC Meeting	Julie Rugg, University of York	"The Commodification of Grave Sales in 19th Century England"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mustafa Sakinc, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord	"'Running It Like a Business': How Boeing's Managers Dismantled Its Productive Capabilities in the MSV Era"
2026 BHC Meeting	Daniel Sanchez Ordonez, Paris School of Economics	"(Un-)Persistent Conflict? The Effects of First Globalization Coffee Boom in Colombia"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mols Sauter, University of Maryland	"ERISA's Plan Asset Rule and the Institutionalization of Venture Capital, 1974-1986"
2026 BHC Meeting	Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, University of Lausanne	"Cold War Battles at the International Labor Organization (ILO): the Role of US Business in Co-Creating International Labor Standards (1947-1989)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Alberto Rinaldi, University of Modena , Maria Carmela Schisani, University of Naples Federico II	"Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Italy (1800–1913): Evidence from a Large Historical Database"
2026 BHC Meeting	Andrea Schneider-Braunberger, GUG - Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V.	"The Significance of Sources and the Historian in the Construction of Knowledge"
2026 BHC Meeting	Katrin Schreiter, King's College London, Volodymyr Kulikov, University College London	"Adaptation or Co-creation? The Westen Family Connections in East-Central Europe"
2026 BHC Meeting	Rahima Schwenkbeck, College of Southern Nevada	"From Trances to Talk Shows: Advertising Psychic Practices in the United States"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ian Seavey, University of Texas, Rio Grand Valley	"Government House Grog: Rum, Mercantilism, and the New Deal in America's Caribbean Empire"
2026 BHC Meeting	Victor Seow, Harvard University	"Fit under Fire: Industrial Psychology in Wartime China"
2026 BHC Meeting	Zoé Seuret, University of Lausanne, Stéphanie Ginalski, University of Lausanne	"How the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (IFBPW) Contributed to Redefine the Boundaries of Women's Work during the Interwar Period"
2026 BHC Meeting	Kalayath Shemil, Centre for Development Studies (affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University), India	"Gatekeeping in the Markets of Indian Small Cardamom in South India (1896–1994)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Guting Shen , University of Birmingham	"The Evolution of Department Stores in Semi-Colonial China: Diversity and Innovation, 1880s to 1940s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Natalie Shibley, Yale University	"M. Moran Weston and Housing Development in Harlem"
2026 BHC Meeting	David Shorten, Harvard Business School	"Business and the Mexican Revolution: Rivalries and Co-Creation"
2026 BHC Meeting	David Sicilia, University of Maryland	"Securitizing Litigation: The Rise – and Perils – of Third-Party Funding"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sabrina Sigel, University of Geneva	"Deforesting for Progress? Environmental Debates and the Coffee Economy in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1889"
2026 BHC Meeting	Alvaro Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics, Pedro Neves, SEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management	"The African Connection: Business and Power in a Polycrisis Period (1890-1930)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Paul Sinclair, University of Regina	"Before Hegemony – Early Americanization of Japanese Commercial Education: The Story of Tokyo Business College (1875–1885)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Pallavi Singh, Queen's University Belfast	"From Bazaars to Corporations: Community in Listed Joint Stock Firms in India (1920s-1970s)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Copenhagen Business School	"Shaped by Metal – Objects As Company Co-creators"
2026 BHC Meeting	Edmond Smith, University of Manchester	"The Corporations are Dead! Long Live Corporate Institutions: The Evolution of Business Culture in Britain After the Decline of Monopoly Privileges"