The Past Speaks

AS: I’m going to be part of a panel on “Colonial Intermediaries” at the Business History Conference in Frankfurt 13-15 March.  Here are my fellow presenters.

Chair and Discussant: Jeffrey Fear, University of Glasgow

Christina Lubinski, German Historical Institute-DCPolitics, Race, and Nationalism: German Multinationals’ HR Policy in India, 1920s-1940s

Elisabeth Koll, Harvard Business SchoolThe Scarcest Resource: Strategic Competition among Foreign and Multinational Companies for Managerial Talent in China, 1890s to 1930s

Stephanie Decker, Aston Business SchoolThe Impact of Colonial Development Debates on the HR Policies of Imperial Business in Ghana and Nigeria, 1940-1960

Andrew Smith, University of LiverpoolThe 1946 Outlook and the Reconstruction of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation