Louis Galambos

IAESBE Co-Director

Telephone: 410-516-7598
E-mail: galambos@jhu.edu

Galambos is professor of History and Editor, The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, at The Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at Rice University, Rutgers University, and Yale University, and has served as President of the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association. A former editor of The Journal of Economic History, he has written extensively on U.S. business history, on business-government relations, on the economic aspects of modern institutional development in America, and on the rise of the bureaucratic state. The Eisenhower Project completed twenty-one volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, eight of which are available in fully searchable form on www.eisenhowermemorial.org.

Galambos' central interest for some years has been the process of innovation in public and private organizations. His recent publications include Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 (coauthor), and Pharmaceutical Firms and the Transition to Biotechnology: A Study in Strategic Innovation, Business History Review, 72 (Summer 1998), 250-78 (co-author). Other books and articles include Theodore N. Vail and the Role of Innovation in the Modern Bell System; Competition and Cooperation; The Public Image of Big Business in America; America at Middle Age; The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth (co-author); and The U.S. Corporate Economy in the Twentieth Century, in volume 3 of The Cambridge Economic History of the United States.

In addition to editing The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, he has edited (with Bob Gallman) the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Economic History and Policy: The United States in the Twentieth Century, and is currently a co-editor of two series with Cambridge University Press: Comparative Perspective in Business History and Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise. At Johns Hopkins University Press, he has edited The Johns Hopkins/AT&T Series in Telephone History and has published extensively on the historical development of America's telecommunications system.

Galambos has an A.B. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a Business History Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and a Fellow at the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson Center and Princeton University's Davis Center. He currently holds the Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at the Library of Congress.

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