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The Business History Conference (BHC) is an academic organization that supports all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history and about the environment in which businesses operate. Founded in 1954, the BHC supports ongoing research among its members and holds conferences to bring together business and economic historians.
European Business History Association. The European Business History Association (EBHA) is an academic association devoted to business history in Europe. It holds annual congresses (called conferences until 2013) and a bi-annual doctoral summer school. [1] It is registered as a Scottish charity.
The first conference took place on 27–28 September 1991 at the Centre for Business History in Scotland, exactly two years after the first meeting, and became a biennial series of meetings until 2000. The association's Ph.D. prize was introduced in 1997 at the joint British/American conference held in Glasgow.
Margaret C. Levenstein[1] is an American economist who is Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research and the School of Information at the University of Michigan. [2] She is a past president of the Business History Conference. [3]
Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School. Children. Dylan Jones. Geoffrey G. Jones is a British-born business historian. He became a US citizen in 2010. [1] He is currently Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. The previous holders of this Chair, which was the first in the world in business ...
Richard R. John. Richard Rodda John, Jr.[1] (born 1959) is an American historian who specializes in the history of business, technology, communications, and the state. He is a professor of history and communications at Columbia University.
Richard C. Overton. Richard Cleghorn Overton (November 9, 1907 – September 30, 1988) was an American railroad historian, a founding member and first secretary of the Lexington Group in Transportation History, and a founding member and the first president of the Business History Conference .
Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives , and entrepreneurs .