Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Martin Monsalve, University of the Pacific	"Engineers, Expertise, and Innovation: The Dual Role of Peruvian Technocrats in Patent System Formation (1893–1930)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Deonnie Moodie, University of Oklahoma	"Civilizing Business: The Imperial Origins of U.S. Business School Education and its Use in India"
2026 BHC Meeting	Maia Müller, Université de Lausanne	"'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once': International Business Associations, Multinational Corporations and Regulation Attempts in the 1970s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sharon Murphy, Providence College	"MetLife's 'Better Health Campaign'"
2026 BHC Meeting	Laurence Mussio, Schulich School of Business	Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting	Jamieson Gordon Myles, University of Geneva	"Internationalising the French Franc: Trade Finance, Banking Networks, and the Paris Acceptance Market, 1928-1936"
2026 BHC Meeting	Scott Reynolds Nelson, University of Georgia	"Oceans of Drugs: Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, Tobacco and the Reconstruction of the International Slave Trade, 1500-1880 AD"
2026 BHC Meeting	Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon	"Industry Composition, Technology Evolution and Changing User Preferences: The Case of the Music Synthesizer"
2026 BHC Meeting	Pasi Nevalainen, University of Jyväskylä	"Who Holds the Power? Changing Backgrounds of Board Members in Finnish State-Owned Companies, 1930s to Present"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jeppe Nevers, University of Southern Denmark	"Novo Nordisk and Foundation Ownership"
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	Lucy Newton, Henley Business School, UK	"New Zealand Banking Iconography in London: Co-Creating Wealth In The Context Of Colonalism and the British Empire"
2026 BHC Meeting	Kondwani Ngoma, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)	"Navigating Sanctions and Apartheid: The Role of Global Banks in South Africa"
2026 BHC Meeting	Shigehiro Nishimura, Kobe University, Yunting Xie, Uppsala University, Fredrik Tell, Uppsala University	"Gadelius and Swedish Business in Japan: Co-creating Global Business as a Patent Agent "
2026 BHC Meeting	Christoph Nitschke, Harvard University	"German-Italian Motor Vehicle Relations: NSU Neckarsulm and Fiat Turin, 1928-1948"
2026 BHC Meeting	Adam Nix, University of Birmingham	"Keeping the Lights On: Reliability and Reform in the UK Electricity Supply Industry"
2026 BHC Meeting	Nathan Norris, Cornell University	"Sheep Circuits in Rapa Nui and Southern Patagonia: Aesthetics of the Pastoral and the Industrial"
2026 BHC Meeting	Bryan Norwood, University of Texas at Austin	"Measuring and Building Risk: The Labor of Fire Insurance in the Early United States"
2026 BHC Meeting	Connor O'Brien, University of Cambridge	"Normative Co-optation and Debt Relief for Post-Invasion Iraq"
2026 BHC Meeting	Alanna O'Malley, Erasmus University	"Global Order INC. The Secret History of How Corporate Power in the Global South Shaped Global Order"
2026 BHC Meeting	Kaete O’Connell, Southern Methodist University	"Occupation to Oktoberfest: American GIs, German Beer, and the Business of Postwar Festivity"
2026 BHC Meeting	Teddy Paikin, McGill University	"Banking Monopoly or Pluralism: Michel Chevalier's War Against the Banque de France (1855–1867)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Olivia Paschal, University of Virginia	"Agrarians or Modernizers? Poultry and Politics in Postwar Arkansas"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ellen Paterson, University of Oxford	"Female Spinners and City Merchants: Anti-Monopoly Agitation in Early Stuart England"
2026 BHC Meeting	Cody Patton, Montana State University Billings	"Aquatic Concerns: Water and the Rise of the Chain Brewery"