Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2020 BHC Meeting	Jane Shaw Stroup, North Carolina State University	"The Rise and Decline of American Correspondence Schools"
2020 BHC Meeting	John Styles, University of Hertfordshire	Roundtable presentation
2020 BHC Meeting	Denise H. Sutton, CUNY-City Tech	"Harlequin Mills & Boon in India: From the ‘Colonial Library’ to Marketing to Modern Indian Readers"
2020 BHC Meeting	Sydney Sweat, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	"Economic Innovation through Community Persistence"
2020 BHC Meeting	Peter Szende, Oxford Brookes University, Bradford Hudson, Boston College	"The Ritz Hotel in Budapest at the End of the Belle Époque"
2020 BHC Meeting	Jesse Tarbert, Independent Scholar	"Ideology, Strategy, and 'Self-Regulation' in the 1920s Construction Industry: Reassessing Herbert Hoover’s 'Associative State'"
2020 BHC Meeting	Emma Teitelman, University of Cambridge	"The U.S. Freedmen's Bureau and the Business of Reconstruction"
2020 BHC Meeting	Aaron Thomas, Mississippi State University	"Jingle Bell Stock: Technology and Labor in the Postwar Artificial Christmas Tree Industry"
2020 BHC Meeting	Stefano Tijerina, University of Maine	"Building a Radio Station from the Bottom Up: WERU, Blue Hill (Maine) and Community Radio in the 1980s"
2020 BHC Meeting	Timothy E. Trombley, Illinois State University	"Railroad Tunneling: Self Dealing during the Construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad"
2020 BHC Meeting	Steven Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology	"Courts as Collaborators: Ninth Circuit Patent Law and Western Boosterism"
2020 BHC Meeting	Sean H. Vanatta, New York University	"The Fall of Fiscal Mutualism: New York State Public Employee Pensions and the State Origins of Financialization"
2020 BHC Meeting	Frank Vanderlinden, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum	"The Brewster Aeronautical Corporation: A Case Study in How Not to Run a Defense Business in Wartime"
2020 BHC Meeting	Anthony Vickery, University of Victoria	"The Business Organization of Commercial Theatre in the United States from Colonial America to the Second World War"
2020 BHC Meeting	Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern Calfornia and Copenhagen Business School, Christoph Viebig, Copenhagen Business School	"Producing Entrepreneurs: The Paradox of Entrepreneurship Education in the United States and Germany, 1800-2015"
2020 BHC Meeting	Stephanie Michelle Vincent, Kent State University	"'Are You A Member of the Made in America Club?' Industrial Cooperation in the Buy American Movement of the 1930s"
2020 BHC Meeting	Natalya Vinokurova, University of Pennsylvania, Rahul Kapoor, University of Pennsylvania	"Converting Inventions into Innovations in Large Firms: How Inventors at Xerox Navigated the Organizational Filters to Commercialize Their Ideas"
2020 BHC Meeting	Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern Calfornia and Copenhagen Business School, Christoph Viebig, Copenhagen Business School	"Producing Entrepreneurs: The Paradox of Entrepreneurship Education in the United States and Germany, 1800-2015"
2020 BHC Meeting	Mark D Walker, North Carolina State University	"M&A and the Treatment of Minority Shareholders in an Opaque Environment: The Case of the Stealth Hostile Takeover of the Third Avenue Railroad"
2020 BHC Meeting	Joseph Wallace, The Johns Hopkins University	"Bank Lane Bohemians: Financial Culture and Sociability in the Early American Republic"
2020 BHC Meeting	Jackie Wang, University of Hong Kong	"Banking on Women: Tracing the Shanghai Women’s Commercial & Savings Bank"
2020 BHC Meeting	Kena Wani, Duke University	"Trustees of the Nation: Business, Philanthropy and Trust-making Regimes in Twentieth-Century Colonial/Postcolonial India"
2020 BHC Meeting	Peter Wegenschimmel, University of Regensburg	"From Command Economy to Public Private Partnership: The History of Post-Socialist Shipbuilding"
2020 BHC Meeting	Rikard Westerberg, Institute for Economic and Business History Research, Stockholm School of Economics	"Valuable Relations – Business Backed Think Tanks in Sweden and Their International Connections, 1945-1985. "
2020 BHC Meeting	David M. Wight, University of North Carolina, Greensboro	"U.S. Businesses, Petrodollars, and Interdependence with the Middle East in the 1970s"