Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2024 BHC Meeting Philip Scranton, Rutgers University "Capitalist Trucks for Communist Troops: Studebakers Transport the Red Army"
2024 BHC Meeting Simone Selva, University of Naples L'Orientale and Harvard University "Oil money, corporations, and global financial markets: from the 1960s unregulated money markets to the financial revolution of the 1980s"
2024 BHC Meeting Sherri Sheu, Science History Institute Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Natalia Shevin, New York University "The 1960s: 'When the House of Labor Moved Quietly into the Investment Business'"
2024 BHC Meeting Derek Shloss, Arizona State University ""Economic Nationalism Without the Protective Tariff: how Albert Gallatin and Gulian Verplanck Reconciled Free Trade and the National Interest""
2024 BHC Meeting David Shorten, Harvard Business School "International Bankers, Postwar Settlement, and the Progressive Party of 1924
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2024 BHC Meeting Fernando Chaddad, Cepheid Research, Inc., David Sicilia, University of Maryland "When Theory Collided With Financial Markets: The Saga of Paul Samuelson and Commodities Corporation "
2024 BHC Meeting Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont "Asking for the Impossible: Chile, the United States, and the Post Second World War Disposition of U.S. Government Ammonia Plants"
2024 BHC Meeting Pallavi Singh, Queen's University Belfast "The Role of Community in the Growth of Indian Joint-Stock Banking, 1920 - 1969"
2024 BHC Meeting Anders Sjoman, Centre for Business History in Stockholm "Preserving business history as a business itself – in the public interest"
2024 BHC Meeting Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Copenhagen Business School "Profit for the common good. Revitalizing the local community through high-risk banking practices"
2024 BHC Meeting David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University "Social Entrepreneurship, Utopianism and early Co-operative Thought in Britain 1820-1855"
2024 BHC Meeting Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian Business School "Freedom of contract and company freedom. The progessive turn in Norwegian corporate law, 1890-1940"
2024 BHC Meeting Siddharth Sridhar, University of Toronto "Agency Houses and Postwar Reconstruction in British Malaya"
2024 BHC Meeting Siddharth Sridhar, University of Toronto "Yields and Costs: Performance Indicators and Imperial Renewal in British Malaya"
2024 BHC Meeting Michael Stamm, Michigan State University "Waves and Radiation: Broadcasting and the Fear of Biological Harm in the Cold War"
2024 BHC Meeting David L. Stebenne, Ohio State University "The Problem of Economic Nationalism in the Mid-20th Century United States, 1929-1968"
2024 BHC Meeting Dimitrios Stergiopoulos, University of California, San Diego "From Istanbul to Athens: The Transnational Movement of Homme d’Affaires in the Second Half of the 19th Century"
2024 BHC Meeting Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology "The Historical Development of Price-setting Mechanisms for Natural Resources"
2024 BHC Meeting Holly Swenson, Northwestern University "A Funny Problem: The Business of Comedy Television in Australia in the Postimperial Moment"
2024 BHC Meeting Aya Tanaka, Shiga University "Learnings from U.S. railroad companies pertinent to contemporary business strategies"
2024 BHC Meeting Alex J. Taylor , University of Pittsburgh "Beautify America with Billboards: Art and the Outdoor Advertising Lobby, 1967"
2024 BHC Meeting Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania "Inflation and Popular Investment Strategies in 1980s Brazil: The Case of Telebrás"
2024 BHC Meeting Philip Thai, Northeastern University "Patriotism and Profit: The Red Capitalists of Hong Kong and Macau in the Cold War"
2024 BHC Meeting Kwelina Thompson, Harvard Business School "“David Rockefeller, Free Enterprise, and the Reform of Capitalism Abroad”"