Key Note Speakers

Prof. Franco Amatori will speak about ”Business History as History”

Franco Amatori is professor of Economic History at Bocconi University in Milan, President of the Association of Italian Business Historians (ASSI), and editor of the journal "Annali di Storia dell'Impresa". He has extensively written on Italian business history. He spearheaded the “chandlerian turn” in European business history. Among other volumes, he co-edited Big Business and the Wealth of Nations (1997) and Business History around the World (2003). Amatori is a member of the editorial boards of "Business History Review", "Business History", and "Enterprise and Society". In 2004 he was named Honorary Foreign Member of the American Historical Association.

Prof. Geoffrey Jones will speak about “Business History and the Great Divergence”

Geoffrey Jones is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. He previously taught at Cambridge and Reading universities and the London School of Economics in Britain, and Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He researches the history of international business, including consumer products, multinational banking, and trading companies. He recently published Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to Twenty First Century (2005) and Renewing Unilever. Transformation and Tradition (2005). He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Business History (forthcoming, 2007) and the journal Business History Review, and is currently finishing a book on the globalization of the beauty industry.

 

 


Franco Amatori


Geoffrey Jones

[University of Bergen) Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen
P.O.Box 7805, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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