Thursday, March 14th
Dissertation Colloquium, 8:00am - 12:00pm
Ocean State Suites
Registration, 2:30pm - 5:30pm
L'Apogee Reception Area (fl. 17)
BHC Trustees Meeting, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Summit (fl. 18)
Friday, March 15th
Breakfast, 7:00am - 8:30am
Biltmore Ballroom (fl. 17)
Book Exhibit, 7:00am - 5:00pm
L'Apogee Reception Area (fl. 17)
Registration, 7:59am - 5:00pm
L'Apogee Reception Area (fl. 17)
Concurrent Sessions 1, 8:00am - 9:30am
Session a: Nervy Crooks, Wet Businessmen, Generous Airline Executives, & the Battle for the Public Interest
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Daniel Robert, U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
Discussant: Sarah Elvins, University of Manitoba
Session b: Conceptualizing the Corporation
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland, College Park
Discussant: Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Session c: Public-Private Partnerships in the Arts and Education
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Alex Taylor, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Hannah Pivo, Columbia University
Session d: Frontiers of Trust: Insurance, Credit Rating, and Advertising Networks
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Anil Askin, Brown University
Discussant: Dalit Baranoff, Independent Scholar
Session e: Negotiated Economies: Reckoning with Ghana's Uncharted Business History
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School (ABS), Mohammed VI Polytechnique University
Discussant: Mattie Webb, Yale University
Session f: Women and the Creation of Capital: Gendered Activity at the Heart of the Public Interest
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Mary Yeager, UCLA
Discussant: Karin Wulf, Brown University and John Carter Brown Library
Session g: Hotels and the Public Good in the Great Depression
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Emmet von Stackelberg, Harvard University
Discussant: Vicki Howard, University of Essex
Session h: Scaling Up in New Directions
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: David Thomson, Sacred Heart University
Discussant: Susan V. Spellman, Miami University of Ohio
Concurrent Sessions 2, 9:45am - 11:30am
Session a: Sources, Methods, and Rationales of Business History
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Laura Linard, Harvard Business School, Baker Library
Discussant: Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California and Copenhagen Business School
Session b: Champions of the Common Good: Insurances and the Process of Shaping Community Interests
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Sharon Murphy, Providence College
Discussant: The Audience
Session c: States and Markets in East Asia and Beyond
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University
Discussant: Michael Thornton, Northeastern University
Session d: Chemical Commodities and Environments, ca. 1900 – Present
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Discussant: Kathryn Steen, Drexel University
Session e: Financial Institutions and the Public ‘Good’
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Graeme Acheson, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Discussant: The Audience
Session f: Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Disruption
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Hartmut Berghoff, Institute of Economic and Social History
Discussant: Juliette Levy, University of California, Riverside
Session g: The Role of Colonial Capitalism in Empire-Building
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Michael Aldous, Queens University
Discussant: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois
Session h: Creativity, Beautification, and Optimization in the 1960s American Advertising Industry
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Daniel Levinson Wilk, Fashion Institute of Technology
Discussant: Jennifer Black, Misericordia University
Business Historians in Business School Lunch, 11:30am - 1:00pm
Biltmore Ballroom (fl. 17)
Concurrent Sessions 3, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Session a: Corruption, Capitalism, and Fraud in 19th-Century America
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford
Discussant: Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford
Session b: More than Words: Visual Representations of Political Economy in the 20th Century
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Purdue University
Discussant: Veronique Pouillard-Maliks, University of Oslo
Session c: Business, Labor, and the "Public Interest" in the United States and the Soviet Union
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Steven Usselman, Georgia Tech
Discussant: JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session d: Quantification between Public and Private Practices
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Eric Godelier, Ecole Polytechnique
Discussant: William Deringer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session e: Making Global Management, In and Out of the Classroom
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library and University of Delaware
Discussant: Kwelina Thompson, Harvard Business School
Session f: Financial Networks of Globalization and Deglobalization
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Mary Bridges, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University
Session g: Mobilizing Industries during World War II
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Liane Hewitt, Centre for History & Economics, Paris
Discussant: David Foord, University of New Brunswick
Session h: Grappling with Disruption in Late-20th Century Commodity Markets
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Stefano Tijerina, Maine Business School
Discussant: Ryan Haddad, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
Concurrent Sessions 4, 2:45pm - 4:15pm
Session a: Roundtable: Synergies between Business History and Accounting History Research
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Yvette Lazdowski, University of New Hampshire
Session b: Rethinking Capitalism in Times of Transition
Biltmore Ballroom (fl. 17)
Chair: Shaun Nichols, Boise State University
Discussant: Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford
Session c: Social Activism in Investing and Finance
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
Session d: Making Place, Making Race in US History
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Susie Pak, St. John's University
Discussant: Paige Glotzer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Session e: On the Move: Agents, Experts and Intermediaries Abroad
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
Discussant: Justin Simard, Michigan State University College of Law
Session f: Financial Regulation v. the Public
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University
Discussant: Grace Ballor, Bocconi University
Session g: Economic Transformations: How Diverse Business Actors Reshaped Britain’s Economy between 1860 and 1920
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Lucy Newton, Henley Business School
Discussant: John Handel, University of Virginia
Session h: Geopolitical Anxiety and Global Trade
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Amanda Ciafone, University of Illinois Urbana, Champagne
Discussant: Jordan Howell, University of Manitoba
Session i: Strategic and Material Uses of Business History
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Jiemin Tina Wei, Harvard University
Discussant: Ellan Spero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saturday, March 16th
Breakfast, 7:00am - 8:30am
Biltmore Ballroom (fl. 17)
Book Exhibit, 7:00am - 4:15pm
L'Apogee Reception Area (fl. 17)
Concurrent Sessions 5, 8:00am - 9:30am
Session a: Time and Technology: Business over the Longue Duree
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Joris Mercelis, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Lukas Rieppel, Brown University
Session b: Regulation from On High and Up Close
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Justin Simard, Michigan State University
Discussant: Jared Berkowitz, University of Chicago
Session c: The Difference Directors Make: Governance, Relationships, and Community
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Gaston de los Reyes, Northeastern University
Discussant: Gaston de los Reyes, Northeastern University
Session d: Race and Corporate Allyship in the US and Among Americans Abroad
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia
Discussant: Jessica Levy, The State University of New York, Purchase
Session e: Business in the Global Cold War
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Discussant: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
Session f: Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Philanthropy, and Community Finance
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow
Discussant: David Sicilia, University of Maryland, College Park
Session g: Highway Economies: Tracing the Dirty Roads of Farm to Shelves
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Bartow J. Elmore, The Ohio State University
Session h: Governing the World’s Largest Machine
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Aya Tanaka, Shiga University
Discussant: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Registration, 8:00am - 10:00am
L'Apogee Reception Area (fl. 17)
Concurrent Sessions 6, 9:45am - 11:30am
Session a: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of David A. Hounshell's From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chairs: David Kirsch, University of Maryland, and Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
Discussant: David A. Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University
Session b: Power, Capital, and Decolonization in Africa
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Claire Wrigley, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Marlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business School
Session c: Narrating Finance and Financial Crisis
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
Discussant: Scott Nelson, College of William & Mary
Session d: Intellectual Property Rights and Technological Diffusion
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Ashton Merck, North Carolina State University
Discussant: Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut
Session e: Technology Emergence and Transfer
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Albert Churella, Kennesaw State University
Discussant: Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Northumbria University
Session f: The Nature of Enterprise in the 19th Century U.S.
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Aaron Van Neste, Harvard University
Discussant: Alexandra Garrett, St. Michael's College
Session g: Energy and Resources as Business Strategy
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Simone Selva, University of Naples L'Orientale (Italy), Fulbright scholar at Harvard University
Discussant: Noel Maurer, George Washington University, School of Business
Session h: The Business History of Natural Resources
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Matthew Wormer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Discussant: Matthew Wormer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Concurrent Sessions 7, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Session a: Roundtable: Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Largest Retail Stores
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Bartow J. Elmore, Ohio State University
Discussant: The Audience
Session b: Restitution and Repair in Business and Business History
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Session c: Microhistories of War and Business in the Atlantic World
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Ann Daly, Mississippi State University
Discussant: Mark Peterson, Yale University
Session d: The Business of Organized Labor in the Postwar U.S.
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Jessica Levy, The State University of New York at Purchase
Discussant: Melanie Sheehan, Kenyon College
Session e: The Role of Financial Markets and Politics in the Global Oil Trade
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Paul Lucier, Independent scholar
Discussant: Sean Patrick Adams, University of Florida
Session f: Sewn, Mended, Printed: Textile History as Business History
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida
Discussant: Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, University of California, Davis
Session g: Communities of Professional Expertise
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Bradford Verter, Winthrop Group
Discussant: Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
Session h: Localized Strategies of Small Electronics Businesses in the Americas (1970s-1980s)
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Mols Sauter, University of Maryland
Discussant: Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
Concurrent Sessions 8, 2:45pm - 4:15pm
Session a: Roundtable: The Business of 19th Century Firearms
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Joseph Slaughter, Wesleyan University
Session b: AI and Digital Business History
Biltmore Ballroom (fl. 17)
Chair: Pasi Nevalainen, University of Jyväskylä
Discussant: Erik Lakomaa, Stockholm School of Economics
Session c: Markets and Antitrust Before and After Neoliberalism
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Richard John, Columbia University
Discussant: Brian Callaci, Open Markets Institute
Session d: The Role of Community in Global Finance
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Benjamin Hein, Brown University
Discussant: Christoph Nitschke, University of Stuttgart
Session e: Financing, Development, and Democracy in Postwar Latin America
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Rodolfo Fernandez, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Louise Walker, Northeastern University
Session f: Private Interests and the Public Good in the Cradle of Capitalism: The Early Modern in Business History
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Harold J. Cook, Brown University
Discussant: Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session g: Doing Healthcare in the Public Interest
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Discussant: Gavin Benke, Boston University
Session h: Planes, Ships, and Parcels: The Business of Transportation
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University
Discussant: Shane Hamilton, University of York
Session i: Doing Business in the (Non)Indigenous Public Interest
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Franklin Sammons, Washington and Lee University
Discussant: Emilie Connolly, Brandeis University
Concurrent Sessions 9, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Session a: Roundtable: Space, Place, and the History of Capitalism
Capital Ballroom (fl. 2)
Chair: Charles Petersen, Cornell University
Discussant: The Audience
Session b: Pushing the Boundaries of the Public "Good"
Summit (fl. 18)
Chair: Pamela Laird, University of Colorado, Denver
Discussant: Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
Session c: The Business of National Patrimony
Summit C (fl. 18)
Chair: Seth Rockman, Brown University
Discussant: Wendy Woloson, Rutgers University, Camden
Session d: The American Family Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Ocean State Suite A (fl. 2)
Chair: Rachel Van, Cal Poly Pomona
Discussant: Mandy Cooper, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Session e: Markets and the State in 20th-Century China
Ocean State Suite B (fl. 2)
Chair: Elizabeth Ingleson, London School of Economics and Political Science
Discussant: Philip Thai, Northeastern University
Session f: Banking Regulation and Policy in the United States
Ocean State Suite C (fl. 2)
Chair: Claire Brennecke, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Discussant: Eric Hilt, Wellesley
Session g: Commercial Television and the Crises of the 1960s and ’70s
Narragansett Bayview Room (fl. 17)
Chair: Josh Lauer, University of New Hampshire
Discussant: Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia
Session h: Doing Business in Others’ Interest: Wartime Production for Allies, Occupiers, and Colonizers
L'Apogee B (fl. 17)
Chair: Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Kate Epstein, Rutgers University, Camden
Book Auction, 6:00pm - 6:15pm
L'Apogee Reception Area (fl. 17)
Presidential Address, 6:20pm - 7:20pm
Biltmore Ballroom (fl. 17)
Banquet, 8:15pm - 10:15pm
Biltmore Ballroom (fl. 17)
Thursday, March 21st