All Prize Recipients

1998 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Ross Bassett
North Carolina State University
"New Technology, New People, New Organizations: The Rise of the MOS Transistor, 1945-1975"
Princeton University, 1998
Supervised by: Michael S. Mahoney
1998 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Sean Patrick Adams
Professor, University of Florida
"Different Charters, Different Paths: Corporations and Coal in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia," Business and Economic History (Fall 1998) View PDF
1998 Harold F. Williamson Prize

For a mid-career scholar who has made significant contributions to business history
Steven Tolliday
University of Leeds
JoAnne Yates
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Sean Patrick Adams
Professor, University of Florida
"Different Charters, Different Paths: Corporations and Coal in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia," Different Charters, Different Paths: Corporations and Coal in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia (Fall 1998) View PDF
1997 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Kolleen Guy
University of Texas, San Antonio
"Wine, Work, and Wealth: Class Relations and Modernization in the Champagne Wine Industry, 1870-1914"
Indiana University, 1996
Supervised by: William Cohen
1997 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
William Tsutsui
University of Kansas
"Rethinking the Paternalist Paradigm in Japanese Industrial Management," Business and Economic History (Winter 1997) View PDF
1997 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
William Tsutsui
University of Kansas
"Rethinking the Paternalist Paradigm in Japanese Industrial Management," Business and Economic History (Winter 1997) View PDF
1996 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Professor Emerita in History
"Imagining Consumers: Manufacturers and Markets in Ceramics and Glass, 1865-1965"
University of Delaware, 1995
Supervised by: David A. Hounshell and Anne M. Boylan
1996 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
William Mass
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
"From Textiles to Automobiles: Mechanical and Organizational Innovation in the Toyoda Enterprises, 1895-1933," Business and Economic History (Winter 1996) View PDF
1996 Harold F. Williamson Prize

For a mid-career scholar who has made significant contributions to business history
1996 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Andrew Robertston
Harvard University
"From Textiles to Automobiles: Mechanical and Organizational Innovation in the Toyoda Enterprises, 1895-1933," Business and Economic History (Winter 1996) View PDF
1995 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Jonathan Bean
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Beyond the Broker State: A History of the Federal Government's Policies toward Small Business, 1936-61"
The Ohio State University, 1994
Supervised by: Mansel Blackford, K. Austin Kerr, and William Childs
1995 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Kenneth Lipartito
Florida International University
"Culture and the Practice of Business History," Business and Economic History (Winter 1995) View PDF
1995 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Kenneth Lipartito
Florida International University
"Culture and the Practice of Business History," Business and Economic History (Winter 1995) View PDF
1994 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Rosalind Remer
University of California, Los Angeles
"Building an American Book Trade: Philadelphia Publishing in the New Republic"
University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
Supervised by: Joyce Appleby
1994 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Paul A. Gompers
University of Chicago
"The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital," Business and Economic History (Winter 1994) View PDF
1994 Harold F. Williamson Prize

For a mid-career scholar who has made significant contributions to business history
Geoffrey Jones
Harvard Business School
1994 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Paul A. Gompers
University of Chicago
"The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital," Business and Economic History (Winter 1994) View PDF
1993 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Victoria Woeste
Research Professor Emerita, American Bar Foundation
"Cooperatives and Corporations: The Sun-Maid Antitrust Case and the Legal Status of Agricultural Cooperatives, 1890-1943"
University of California at Berkeley, 1990
Supervised by: Harry N. Scheiber and Morton Rothstein
1993 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Steven Usselman
Georgia Tech
"IBM and Its Imitators: Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry," Business and Economic History (Winter 1993) View PDF
1993 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Steven Usselman
Georgia Tech
"IBM and Its Imitators: Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry," Business and Economic History (Winter 1993) View PDF
1992 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Margaret Levenstein
Michigan Census Research Data Center and Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
"Information Systems and Internal Organization: A Study of the Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914"
Yale University, 1991
Supervised by: William N. Parker and David F. Weiman
1992 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Sally Clarke
University of Texas at Austin (retired)
"'Innovation' in U.S. Agriculture: A Role for New Deal Regulation," Business and Economic History (Winter 1992) View PDF
1992 Harold F. Williamson Prize

For a mid-career scholar who has made significant contributions to business history
David A. Hounshell
Carnegie Mellon University
1992 Newcomen Prize

Awarded from 1992 through 2008
Sally Clarke
University of Texas at Austin (retired)
"'Innovation' in U.S. Agriculture: A Role for New Deal Regulation," Business & Economic History (Winter 1992) View PDF
1991 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
David Sicilia
University of Maryland, Emeritus
"Selling Power: Marketing and Monopoly at Boston Edison, 1886-1926"
Brandeis University
Supervised by: Morton Keller and Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1990 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Richard John
Columbia University
"Spreading the Word: The Postal System and the Creation of American Society"
Harvard University, 1989
Supervised by: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and David Herbert Donald
1990 Harold F. Williamson Prize

For a mid-career scholar who has made significant contributions to business history
Naomi Lamoreaux
Department of Economics, Yale University
1989 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Helen Shapiro
University of California Washington Center
"State Intervention and Industrialization: The Origins of the Brazilian Automotive Industry"
Yale University, 1988
Supervised by: William N. Parker and Albert Fishlow
1988 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
Sally Clarke
University of Texas at Austin (retired)
"Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Regulation and Innovation in American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century"
Brown University, 1987
Supervised by: Naomi Lamoreaux
1986 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

For the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within past 3 years
"From Conflict to Consensus: The American Institute of Accountants and the Professionalization of Public Accountancy, 1886-1940"
Johns Hopkins University, 1985
Supervised by: Louis Galambos