Hagley Prize in Business History

This prize is for the best book in business history (broadly defined) and consists of a medallion and $2,500, which are presented at the annual meeting of the BHC. Given the nature of the award's funding and establishment (through the generosity of the Hagley Museum and Library of Wilmington, Delaware, one of the nation's most significant research libraries dedicated to the history of business), the Grants and Prizes Committee will advise the Hagley representative and the BHC President about who would be a suitable person to serve as the third member of the three-person selection committee. The award committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or international focus. They must be written in English and published during the two years prior to the award. Four copies of a book must accompany a nomination and must be submitted to the Prize Coordinator, Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, 298 Buck Road, Wilmington DE 19807-0630 USA. Email: clockman@hagley.org. The submission deadline is November 30.

 

Hagley Prize

2024 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Margot Canaday
Princeton University
Cover of Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Princeton University Press, 2023

List of Finalists

2023 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-Recipient


Alejandro Gomez-del-Moral
University Lecturer, University of Helsinki
Buying into Change
Buying into Change Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939-1982
University of Nebraska Press

List of Finalists

2023 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-Recipient


Hannah Farber
University of California, Berkeley
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
University of North Carolina Press

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2022 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-Recipient


Timothy Yang
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Georgia
Book Cover
A Medicated Empire The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan
Cornell University Press

List of Finalists

2022 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-Recipient


Caley Horan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Book Cover
Insurance Era Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
The University of Chicago Press

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2021 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-Recipient


Marcia Chatelain
Professor, Georgetown University
Cover of Franchise The Golden Arches in Black America
Franchise The Golden Arches in Black America
Liveright, 2020

List of Finalists

2021 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-Recipient


Ben Marsh
Reader in American History, University of Kent
Unravelled Dreams Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840
Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840
Cambridge University Press, 2020

2020 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Ai Hisano
The University of Tokyo
Cover of Visualizing Taste:  How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
Harvard University Press, 2019

List of Finalists

2019 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Per H. Hansen
Professor in the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School
Danish Modern Furniture, 1930-2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-emergence of a Cultural Market Category
Danish Modern Furniture, 1930-2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-emergence of a Cultural Market Category
University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018

2018 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Kenda Mutongi
Williams College
Matatu A HISTORY OF POPULAR TRANSPORTATION IN NAIROBI
MATATU: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi
University of Chicago Press, 2017

2017 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Mark Wilson
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Destructive Creation
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016

2016 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient

Faxed
Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016

2016 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient


Vicki Howard
University of Essex
From Main Street to Mall
From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015

2015 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Walter Friedman
Harvard Business School
Fortune Tellers
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
Princeton University Press, 2013

2014 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient


Bernhard Rieger
Leiden University
People's Car
The People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle
Harvard University Press, 2013

2014 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient


Dimitry Anastakis
University of Toronto
Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade
Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade
University of Toronto Press, 2013

2013 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Michael Miller
University of Miami
Europe and the Maritime World
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History
Cambridge University Press, 2012

2012 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Sharon Murphy
Providence College
Investing in Life
Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

2011 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Susan Ingalls Lewis
State University of New York at New Paltz
Unexceptional Women
Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885
The Ohio State University Press, 2009

2010 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


David Suisman
University of Delaware
Selling Sounds
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
Harvard University Press, 2012

2009 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Ann Smart Martin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Buying into the World of Goods
Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

2008 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Prophet of Innovation
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Harvard University Press, 2007

2007 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Christopher McKenna
Reader in Business History & Strategy, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Worlds Newest Profession
The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge University Press, 2006

2006 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Pamela Laird
Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
Pull
Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
Harvard University Press, 2006

2005 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient


Thomas Kinney
Bluefield College
Carriage Trade
The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

2005 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient


Mira Wilkins
Florida International University
History of Foreign Investments in the United States
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945
Harvard University Press, 2004

2004 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Jennifer Klein
Department of History, Yale University
For all these rights
For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
Princeton University Press, 2003

2003 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Clare H. Crowston
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fabricating Women
Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791
Duke University Press, 2001

2002 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient


Gerald Feldman
1937 - 2007
Allianz
Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945
Cambridge University Press, 2001

2002 Hagley Prize in Business History Co-recipient


Jonathan Wiesen
University of Alabama, Birmingham
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
University of North Carolina Press, 2001

2001 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society
Imagining Consumers
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

2000 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Kathryn J. Burns
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Colonial Habits
Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
Duke University Press, 1999

1999 Hagley Prize in Business History Recipient


Roland Marchand
1933 - 1997
Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
University of California Press, 1998