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.