The Business History Conference awarded seven at its annual meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. These are the winners of the 2019 prizes:
Franco Amatori (Università Bocconi) was awarded the Business History Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. The BHC's Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a person who, in the judgment of the Grants and Prizes Committee, ratified by vote of the Board of Trustees, contributed in major ways to the work of the Business History Conference and to scholarship in business history. Nominations are solicited from the membership for this award every two to three years as appropriate. The award consists of a commemorative piece in etched crystal, presented at the annual meeting. The first award was bestowed in 2002.
Per Hansen (Copenhagen Business School) won the Hagley Prize in Business History for his book Danish Modern Furniture, 1930-2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-emergence of a Cultural Market Category (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018). This prize is for the best book in business history (broadly defined) award committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline.
Natalya Vinokurova, (Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania), was awarded the Scranton Best Article Prize for her article in "How Mortgage-Backed Securities Became Bonds: The Emergence, Evolution, and Acceptance of Mortgage-Backed Securities in the United States, 1960-1987" (September 2018): 610-660. This prize recognizes the author or authors of an article published in Enterprise & Society judged to be the best of those that have appeared in the volume previous to the year of the BHC annual meeting. It is named in recognition of Philip Scranton's deep contributions to Enterprise & Society and is generously funded by Cambridge University Press.
Ghassan Moazzin (University of Cambridge) won the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History for his doctoral thesis (and presentation at the BHC) "Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885-1919)". Dissertations in business history completed in the three calendar years immediately prior to the annual meeting can be nominated or considered but may be submitted only once for the committee's consideration.
The K. Austin Kerr Prize is awarded for the best first paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar (doctoral student or those within three years of receiving their Ph.D.). Alastair Yuanhao Su (Stanford University) won this year competition for his paper and presentation "A Marvellous Affair": Opium and the Panic of 1839.
Valeria Giacomin (Harvard Business School) was awarded The Mira Wilkins Prize for the article "The Emergence of an Export Cluster: Traders and Palm Oil in Early Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia" (Vol. 19, June 2018): 272-308. This prize, established in 2009 in recognition of the path-breaking scholarship of Mira Wilkins, is awarded to the author of the best article published annually in Enterprise & Society pertaining to international and comparative business history.
The Ralph Gomory Prize was awarded to Anne Fleming (Georgetown University Law Center) for the book City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance (Harvard University Press, 2018). This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.
Congratulations!!
Andrea Lluch, Marcelo Bucheli, and Roger Horowitz received words of gratitude for their work and time invested in organizing the 2019 meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, and for their contributions to previous meetings. Carol Lockman and Pat Denault were also thanked at the banquet. For pictures of Gala moments and other #BHCCartagena events, please visit the BHC updated archive.
Franco Amatori (Università Bocconi) was awarded the Business History Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. The BHC's Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a person who, in the judgment of the Grants and Prizes Committee, ratified by vote of the Board of Trustees, contributed in major ways to the work of the Business History Conference and to scholarship in business history. Nominations are solicited from the membership for this award every two to three years as appropriate. The award consists of a commemorative piece in etched crystal, presented at the annual meeting. The first award was bestowed in 2002.
Per Hansen (Copenhagen Business School) won the Hagley Prize in Business History for his book Danish Modern Furniture, 1930-2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-emergence of a Cultural Market Category (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018). This prize is for the best book in business history (broadly defined) award committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline.Natalya Vinokurova, (Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania), was awarded the Scranton Best Article Prize for her article in "How Mortgage-Backed Securities Became Bonds: The Emergence, Evolution, and Acceptance of Mortgage-Backed Securities in the United States, 1960-1987" (September 2018): 610-660. This prize recognizes the author or authors of an article published in Enterprise & Society judged to be the best of those that have appeared in the volume previous to the year of the BHC annual meeting. It is named in recognition of Philip Scranton's deep contributions to Enterprise & Society and is generously funded by Cambridge University Press.
Ghassan Moazzin (University of Cambridge) won the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History for his doctoral thesis (and presentation at the BHC) "Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885-1919)". Dissertations in business history completed in the three calendar years immediately prior to the annual meeting can be nominated or considered but may be submitted only once for the committee's consideration.
The K. Austin Kerr Prize is awarded for the best first paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar (doctoral student or those within three years of receiving their Ph.D.). Alastair Yuanhao Su (Stanford University) won this year competition for his paper and presentation "A Marvellous Affair": Opium and the Panic of 1839.
Valeria Giacomin (Harvard Business School) was awarded The Mira Wilkins Prize for the article "The Emergence of an Export Cluster: Traders and Palm Oil in Early Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia" (Vol. 19, June 2018): 272-308. This prize, established in 2009 in recognition of the path-breaking scholarship of Mira Wilkins, is awarded to the author of the best article published annually in Enterprise & Society pertaining to international and comparative business history.
The Ralph Gomory Prize was awarded to Anne Fleming (Georgetown University Law Center) for the book City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance (Harvard University Press, 2018). This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.Congratulations!!
Andrea Lluch, Marcelo Bucheli, and Roger Horowitz received words of gratitude for their work and time invested in organizing the 2019 meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, and for their contributions to previous meetings. Carol Lockman and Pat Denault were also thanked at the banquet. For pictures of Gala moments and other #BHCCartagena events, please visit the BHC updated archive.