Business and Economic History: Krooss Prize Winners, 1986-1999
The Herman Krooss Prize was originally awarded in alternate years for the the best dissertation presented at the current and previous meetings of the BHC. In 1989, the Trustees voted to make the prize an annual award. It consists of a plaque and $500.
A listing of Krooss Prize winners including those after 1999 is available on the Web site. Since 2000, dissertation summaries appear in Enterprise & Society.
1985-1986
Paul J. Miranti, Jr.
From Conflict to Consensus: The American Institute of Accountants and the Professionalization of Public Accountancy, 1886-1940
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1987-1988
Sally Clarke
Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Regulation and Innovation in American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
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1989
Helen Shapiro
State Intervention and Industrialization: The Origins of the Brazilian Automotive Industry
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1990
Richard R. John
Spreading the Word: The Postal System and the Creation of American Society
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1991
David Sicilia
Selling Power: Marketing and Monopoly at Boston Edison, 1886-1926
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1992
Margaret Levenstein
Information Systems and Internal Organization: A Study of the Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914
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1993
Victoria Saker Woeste
Cooperatives and Corporations: The Sun-Maid Antitrust Case and the Legal Status of Agricultural Cooperatives, 1890-1943
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1994
Rosalind Remer
Building an American Book Trade: Philadelphia Publishing in the New Republic
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1995
Jonathan Bean
Beyond the Broker State: A History of the Federal Government's Policies toward Small Business, 1936-61
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1996
Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Imagining Consumers: Manufacturers and Markets in Ceramics and Glass, 1865-1965
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1997
Kolleen Guy
Wine, Work, and Wealth: Class Relations and Modernization in the Champagne Wine Industry, 1870-1914
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1998
Ross Bassett
New Technology, New People, New Organizations: The Rise of the MOS Transistor, 1945-1975
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1999
Lisa A. Marovich
Fueling the Fires of Genius: Women's Inventive Activities in American War Eras
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