IAESBE Seminars and Symposia
2005
Steve Adams
& Paul Miranti:
"The Chrysanthemum and the Crossbar: The Bell System's Knowledge Transfer
to the Japanese Telecommunications Industry, 1945-1950"
(Steve Adams, Assistant Professor of Management, Salisbury University;
Paul Miranti, Professor of Accounting & Information Systems, Rutgers-the
State University of New Jersey.
Julie Kimmel, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Writing, Philadelphia University, "Managing Masculinities: Employment Managers and the 'Science of Handling Men,' 1916-1921"
2004
Symposium - Balancing
Public and Private Control: The United States and Germany in the Post-World
War II Era.
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International Colloquium on Business Performance in the 20th Century: A Comparative Perspective. This Colloquium was sponsored by Bocconi University in Italy and held in Milan. The conference papers will be edited by IAESBE for publication.
2003
Gregg P. Zachary,
a journalism fellow with the German Marshall Fund and Editor-At-Large
with Business 2.0, "A Report on Deregulation and State-owned enterprises
in Ghana".
2002
Conference - "Entrepreneurs and Managers" was sponsored by Bocconi University and held in Milan. The conference papers will be published by Cambridge University Press in a series co-edited by Galambos and Franco Amatori
2001
Danniel Raff, "Superstores and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities in American Bookselling"
Kees Boersma, assistant professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, "Inventing Structures for Industrial Research. A comparison between Philips R&D and General Electric R&D 1900-1945"
Conference - Evolutionary
Economics: New Perspectives on Telecommunications and Pharmaceuticals
in Europe and the United States
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1999
William Leslie
& Scott Knowles, "Industrial Versailles:
Eero Saarinen's Corporate Laboratories"
Richard S. Rosenbloom, David Sarnoff Professor,
Emeritus, Harvard Business School "How the 'Copier Company' became the 'Document Company' : Organizational Change and Technological Innovation
at Xerox, 1982-1998."
Eric Abrahamson, The Prologue Group, "Managing
the Heart: Labor, Management and Systemization in the Birth of the Modern
Service Economy in the United States"
Robert Buderi, former editor, Business Week,
"The Near-Death Experience of IBM Research"
1998
Maria Alice Rosa Ribeiro,
Professor of Economics, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Brazil: State and Pharmaceutical Industry 1900-45: the formation of the
pharmaceutical industry in the peripheral areas of capitalism"
Paloma Sanchez, Professor of Applied Economics,
The Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, "Accounting for Research,
Development, and Intellectual Property."
David L. Stebenne, Associate Professor of
History, Ohio State University, "Thomas J. Watson and the Business-Government
Relationship, 1933-1956"
1997
Sally Clarke,
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, "Business
and Consumer Society"
Matthias Kipling, Lecturer in the Economics
Department, University of Reading, UK, "The Internationalization of Management
Consultancies in the Twentieth Century"
Naomi Lamoreaux, UCLA and NBER, "Accounting
for Capitalism in Early American History: Farmers, Merchants, Manufacturers,
and their Economic Worlds"
William Lazonick, Center for Industrial Competitiveness,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, "Organizational Learning and International
Competition: The Skill-Based Hypothesis"
Mary O'Sullivan, INSEAD, "The Innovative
Enterprise and Corporate Governance"
Gregg Pascal Zachary, senior special writer,
Wall Street Journal, "Between Two Worlds: Journalism and History"
Julian Zelizer, Assistant Professor of History
and Public Policy, University at Albany, NY, "'Just where it will end,
heaven only knows': Fiscal conservatism and the New Deal, 1933-1939"
Colloquium
- Global Perspectives on Modern Business
jointly sponsored with the Department of History, JHU
Louis Galambos,
Moderator
Estuo Abe, Meiji University, Tokyo, "The
Development of Modern Business in Japan"
Franco Amatori, Bocconi University, Milan,
"The Italian Difference"
Geoffrey Jones, University of Reading, "The
British Paradoxes"
Colloquium
- Understanding Innovation
jointly sponsored with the Department of History, JHU
Steve H. Hanke,
Professor of Applied Economics, JHU, Moderator
Naomi Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics and
History, UCLA and Louis Galambos, Professor of Business and Economic History,
JHU, "Understanding Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry"
Svante Lindqvist, Professor of History and
Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, "Another
Perspective"
Richard Nelson, George Blumenthal Professor
of International and Public Affairs, Political Science, Business and Law,
Columbia University, "Commentary"
Luigi Orsenigo, Bocconi University, Italy,
"Innovation and Social Policy in Pharmaceuticals"
Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh Dickinson Professor
of Economics, Stanford University, "Commentary"
M. Paloma Sanchez, Professor of Applied Economics,
The Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, "Accounting for Innovation"
Ulrich Wengenroth, University of Technology, Munich, Germany, "The
New Technology"
June 7
Innovative Organizations: The Critical Transitions of Successful Firms
David Hounshell, Henry R. Luce Professor
of technology and Social Change, Carnegie Melon University, "The Innovation-to-Desperation
Cycle: The Case of Ford Motor Company"
Meg Graham, The Winthrop Group, "Innovation,
Learning and History: The Corning Experience"
Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Merck & Co. and
Louis Galambos, JHU, "Sustaining Innovation
at Merck"
John K. Smith, Lehigh University, The Wave
Might Be Long But the Summer Isn't Endless: The DuPont Company in the
Twentieth Century"
Steven Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology,
"IBM: Making Waves in the Computer Business"
Eric Abrahamson, JHU and Louis
Galambos, JHU, "Competition and Innovation in Regulated Arenas:
Pacific Telesis and the Breakup of the Bell System"
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