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The State of Business and Economic History in Africa1 comment

stephdeck1 wrote 1 week ago: Does Africa need Business History? Editor’s note: In her first contribution to our blog, Steph … more →

Tags: Africa, business history, economic history, globalization, Institutions, African business history, African Renaissance, Association of Business Historians, Economic History

The Dvorak Keyboard: Network Effect or Market Efficiency?

GilPress wrote 1 week ago: Today in 1936, U.S. patent No. 2,040,248 was issued to August Dvorak and William Dealey for their ke … more →

Tags: This day in information, network effect, Economic Impact, Patents

The Week in Early American History

Jonathan Wilson wrote 3 weeks ago: We begin this week with topography and geography, both literal and figurative. In Smithsonian Magazi … more →

Tags: The Week in Early American History, Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Bunker Hill, Graduate School, harold holzer, Merle Curti Award, nathaniel philbrick, New York City, Newspapers

ENRICHING OUR MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FURTHER

ashokbhatia wrote 3 weeks ago: Is there a scope of improvement in management education? If so, how do we enrich it further? I confe … more →

Tags: Skilling the Young, Alfred D Chandler, Ambanis, artha shastra, Bhagavat Gita, Birlas, CEO, chanakya neeti, Charles Wilson

Collaborative Consulting Confirms Commitment To Financial Services Practice With New Hires

LeadingFocus wrote 1 month ago: As seen on The Wall Street Journal, week of 22 April 2013 Move Deepens Collaborative Consulting Serv … more →

Local Treasures: Progressive Sydney - The Newcastle, Mayfield and Toronto Bits (1938)1 comment

uoncc wrote 1 month ago: Cover of “Progressive Sydney as it stands today” (1938) Day Shift – 16/04/2013 – 02:10 P … more →

Tags: 1938, Mayfield, Newcastle, Toronto, local business history

Lost touch?

Jane Plitt wrote 1 month ago: Lost touch?. … more →

Of Cabbages & Clients

LeadingFocus wrote 1 month ago: While some metaphors are effective because they are memorable, and some are regrettable because they … more →

Who We Are1 comment

deannwheeler wrote 1 month ago: Innovative Thinking Consulting Group, LLC. is a company purposed to bring more than solutions to the … more →

Tags: Innovative Thinking Consulting Group, Innovative Thinking Consultng Group LLC, "Solutions for the Here and Now", Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft, limited liability company

What Can an Insurance Policy Register Tell Us About Life in Post–Civil War Virginia?1 comment

E. Lee Shepard wrote 2 months ago: When VHS staff developed a funding proposal to the National Historical Publications and Records Comm … more →

Tags: Archives, COLLECTIONS, Life Insurance, Life Insurance Company of Virginia, Life of Virginia, NHPRC, Reconstruction

Writing Reimagining Business History by reimagining writing

brendanccoyne wrote 2 months ago: Guest post by Phil Scranton When a scholarly book is finished, and before readers and critics decide … more →

Tags: Behind the Scenes, writing, History

Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph

GilPress wrote 2 months ago: Caitlin Rosenthal writes in “Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph,” McKinsey Quarterly, … more →

Tags: Social Networks, information organization, Social Impact, telegraph, "big data", Railroads

Big data in the age of the telegraph

curiously wrote 2 months ago: Big data is a term that came in vogue recently with the proliferation of technology and media, but t … more →

Tags: business / organization, Data Visualization, New York, Organization Chart, Railroads

Book launch

janisthiessen wrote 3 months ago: Celebrating the publication of my first book! The book launch will take place at Winnipeg’s Mc … more →

Tags: ethno-religious, oral history, Mennonite, labour history, Book Launch, Palliser Furniture, loewen windows, Friesen Printers, Manitoba

Abe Lincoln's Birthday (With Cake)

Lennon Cole wrote 3 months ago: Ten score and four years ago, Nancy Lincoln brought forth on this continent, a child, who grew into … more →

Tags: News, Featured, Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, business credit reporter, Birthday

History Buzz January 28, 2013: Stewart Winger: Illinois State University History Professor Awarded a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for Lincoln Book

bonniekgoodman wrote 3 months ago: HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP History professor awarded fellowsh … more →

Tags: Historians News, history awards, American History, faculty, Civil War And Reconstruction, 19th Century, Abraham Lincoln, Stewart Winger, Illinois State University

Sunbeam gets toasted3 comments

bbatiz wrote 3 months ago: Accounting fraud, business failure and creative auditing: A micro-analysis of the strange case of Su … more →

Tags: Accounting History, Masayoshi Noguchi, USA, accounting history, Corporate Governance

...but I know what I like...

LW wrote 3 months ago:   Starting in 1974, the Michigan-based company Marüshka produced ready-to-hang wall art in a bo … more →

Tags: Art, Mikimoto, Pearls, Cultivated Pearls, Marushka

Must we question corporate rule?

bbatiz wrote 4 months ago: Financialization of the U.S. corporation: what has been lost, and how it can be regained William Laz … more →

Tags: business history, globalization, Money & Banking, USA, Corporate Governance, Financial Crises, Financial History, Money


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