Seminars
Summer Term 2008
12 May at 5.30pm |
Leslie Hannah (LSE) |
‘Professor Chandler goes to Hollywood: Why did Scale and Scope go so tragically wrong?’ |
This seminar will be held at 5.30 pm in H615, Connaught House, Aldwych, London WC2. For further information contact the Unit’s Director, Terry Gourvish on 020 7955 7073, e-mail t.r.gourvish@lse.ac.uk
Joint seminars with the Department of Management, LSE
19 May at 4.00pm*
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Gino Cattani (NYU Stern) |
‘Organising Activities during the Pre-production Stage: A Genealogical Perspective on New Field Formation’ [A study of the emergence and evolution of the biometric iris recognition market] |
2 June at 5.00pm*
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Mary O’Sullivan (Wharton School) |
‘Funding Mammoths and Minnows: the Securities Markets and Corporate Development in the United States, 1885-1930’ |
*These joint seminars will be held in The Morishima Room, Room 505, Lionel Robbins building. Please note the starting times, which differ. Access to the room is via LSE Library, main entrance. Turn left through the door marked 'LSE Research Lab' and take the lift to the 5th floor.
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Lent Term 2008
21 January |
Valerie Johnson (Business Archives Council) |
'Hierarchies and Divisions: British Multinationals in Imperial Perspective' |
4 February |
Gerald Crompton (Kent Business School) |
'The Internationalisation of British Brewing' |
18 February |
Keetie Sluyterman (University of Utrecht) |
'Balancing demands: Royal Dutch Shell in discussion with its critics, 1970-2000' |
3 March |
Philip Scranton (Rutgers)# |
'Mastering Failure: Cold War Jet Engine Development, 1942-65'# |
The seminars are held at 5.30 pm in H615, Connaught House, Aldwych, London WC2. For further information contact the Unit’s Director, Terry Gourvish on 020 7955 7073, email t.r.gourvish@lse.ac.uk
#Joint seminar organised with the Department of Management.
Michaelmas Term 2007
15 October |
Sir Christopher Hogg (Financial Reporting Council)* |
'The Evolution of Corporate Governance in Britain over the Last Forty Years' |
29 October |
Aashish Velkar (LSE) |
'Gauging Accurately: Competition and Engineering Standards in the British Wire Industry in the late 19th Century' |
21 November |
Ray Miles (ex-CEO, CP Ships)* |
'Containerisation: Key Themes for the 21 Century'
Note Change of Date |
26 November |
Mike Esbester (University of Reading) |
'"Killed or disabled employees … sheer dead loss": British Railway Companies' Responses to Occupational Casualty, c.1899-1939' |
* These are ING seminars held at 60 London Wall. Pre-registration is required. If you would like to attend please contact Terry Gourvish.
Summer Term 2007
30 April |
Andrew Smith (Institute of Historical Research) |
‘William Lever’s Canadian Enterprise 1888-1914: Why Lever Brothers Performed Better North of the Canada-US Border’ |
14 May |
Colin Divall (Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York) |
‘‘‘You see, my husband’s so partial to a mantel-shelf’’: the Gendered Construction of ‘Safety’ on Britain’s Railways, 1919-39’ |
4 June |
Mick Rowlinson (Queen Mary) |
‘Memory, History, Forgetting in Management and Organization Theory’ |
Lent Term 2007
22 January |
James Bamberg (University of Cambridge) |
‘Oil Companies, Climate Change and the Shaping of Public Policy, c.1970s-2000’ |
5 February |
Geoffrey Owen (LSE) |
‘The History of Courtaulds from 1960 to 2000: what lessons for management?’ |
19 February |
Virginie Vial-Kilner (Euromed Marseille School of Management) |
‘Survival and Exit in a Distorted Environment: Indonesian manufacturing establishments in the Suharto era, 1975-1995’ |
5 March |
Robert Fitzgerald (Royal Holloway) |
‘Globalisation, National Comparisons, and the Making of Management: the influence of Business History?’ |
The seminars will be held at 5.30 pm in H615, Connaught House, Aldwych, London WC2. For further information contact the Unit’s Director, Terry Gourvish on 020 7955 7073, email t.r.gourvish@lse.ac.uk
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