#business-history — Public Fediverse posts
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The Architect of an Empire, Or an Empire's Shadow?
Ray Kroc bought McDonald's from the founders. The brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald can no longer use the McDonald's name.
#RayKroc, #McDonaldsFounders, #BusinessHistory, #Franchise, #FastFood
https://newsletter.tf/ray-kroc-founders-lose-mcdonalds-name-rights/
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Ray Kroc took over McDonald's in 1961. The original founders, the McDonald brothers, lost the rights to their own name and business.
#RayKroc, #McDonaldsFounders, #BusinessHistory, #Franchise, #FastFood
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Pixar almost failed. Jobs wanted to sell it multiple times. Persistence changed everything. Read about his wilderness years.
#Books #Pixar #NeverGiveUp #BusinessHistory #ReadingList
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Pixar almost failed. Jobs wanted to sell it multiple times. Persistence changed everything. Read about his wilderness years.
#Books #Pixar #NeverGiveUp #BusinessHistory #ReadingList
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Was the personal computer revolution always destined to succeed? Our review discusses the market pressures and corporate battles that nearly killed it.
#TechReads #BusinessHistory #Books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/personal-computer-history-fire-valley-review/ -
Was the personal computer revolution always destined to succeed? Our review discusses the market pressures and corporate battles that nearly killed it.
#TechReads #BusinessHistory #Books
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Find out about Alex Gillett and I's new book about the British influence on the Olympic movement in this week's
University of York School for Business and Society
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Find out about Alex Gillett and I's new book about the British influence on the Olympic movement in this week's
University of York School for Business and Society
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What Global Trade History Teaches Buyers
📌 Trade Lesson from History - Trade history is not written only by sellers.
It is shaped just as much by buyers.
Many historical trade failures happened because buyers ignored structure: – unclear specifications
– weak contracts
– undocumented sourcing
– unrealistic pricing expectationsContinue ⤵️
#TradeRisk #Compliance #DueDiligence #QualityAssurance #BusinessHistory #contractmanagement
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Lesson:
Without structure, standards, and discipline — trade becomes gambling.Real trade is built on rules, value, and accountability.
#monopoly #history #marketstrategy #fairtrade #businesshistory #competition
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VENICE & BLACK PEPPER MONOPOLY 🌶️
Trade Lesson from History — The Black Pepper Monopoly
In the 14th & 15th centuries, Venice controlled Europe’s black pepper trade. They created an artificial monopoly — inflating prices and restricting access.
For a while, Venice dominated.
But markets don’t stay trapped forever.Other nations searched for alternative routes — and found them. This led to the Age of Exploration.
(Continued below 👇)
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Passend zum Internationalen Tag der #Schönheit, der 1995 von einer Organisation der #Schönheitsindustrie erfunden wurde, empfehlen wir heute einen Beitrag zur #Kosmetik-Vermarktung bei #Beiersdorf & #Mouson (1920er–1960er):
▶ Uta G. Poiger, #Beauty, Business and German International Relations, #WerkstattGeschichte 45/2007, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-45-uta-g-poiger/
#histodons #Cosmetics #BeautyIndustry #BusinessHistory #MarketingGeschichte #Unternehmensgeschichte #WorldBeautyDay
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Passend zum Internationalen Tag der #Schönheit, der 1995 von einer Organisation der #Schönheitsindustrie erfunden wurde, empfehlen wir heute einen Beitrag zur #Kosmetik-Vermarktung bei #Beiersdorf & #Mouson (1920er–1960er):
▶ Uta G. Poiger, #Beauty, Business and German International Relations, #WerkstattGeschichte 45/2007, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-45-uta-g-poiger/
#histodons #Cosmetics #BeautyIndustry #BusinessHistory #MarketingGeschichte #Unternehmensgeschichte #WorldBeautyDay
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University of Cambridge: Family fortunes founded on slavery. “More than 600 letters, photos and papers – pieced together over 20 years from auction sites such as eBay – paint a vivid picture of a British dynasty who profited from enslaving people during the 18th and 19th centuries and indenturing people into the 20th century. The first tranche of the collection is now open to researchers […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/29/university-of-cambridge-family-fortunes-founded-on-slavery/
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Dangerous news for people like me that like staring at old maps - new one inch to the mile maps added to NLS maps.
#businesshistory #managementhistory #mbh #orghis #histodons
maps.nls.uk/additions/#169
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I read this account of the rise and fall of Victoria's Secret over the weekend. If you're looking for a cultural studies text on this once iconic lingerie business, this book is not for you. The authors are fashion business journalists and "Selling Sexy" is a well sourced rag trade business history. I enjoyed learning more about the rise of specialty retail in the USA, outsourcing to Asia, and similar apparel industry topics, but others might find this material dry.
Yet the very nature of the business requires the authors to discuss marketing and image, which they do with a good grasp of race, ethnicity, and physique in the development of the various Victoria's Secret fantasy worlds. The narrative also describes, without pretending to explain completely, the still mysterious spell that Jeffrey Epstein cast over VS boss Leslie Wexner. In the final chapters of the book, the authors give a good account of how Victoria's Secret failed to adapt to the new age of #MeToo, the shaming of fatshamers, and Instagram influencers.
Although the book is not supposed to be a coffee table volume, I was disappointed by the paucity and limited range of illustrations, as a larger selection would have more clearly shown the changes in VS marketing over the years.
A rewarding read overall that made me think more about the pressures and desires women face when choosing, combining, or rejecting the pretty, the sexy, and the comfy.
Selling Sexy
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250850966/sellingsexy/
#VictoriasSecret #BusinessHistory #HistoryOfDress #FashionHistory #Lingerie #LeslieWexner #Books
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Excited to unveil this
#CfP for
Business History
- Business History and Imperialism.All submissions related to business and empire welcome - including those with an interest in historical project studies.
#bizhis #mgthis #mbh #orghis #businesshistory #managementhistory #management #histodons
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Explicating archival ethnography: Helmut Käser’s business trip in #MOH
- SI on microhistory.Its a microhistorical narrative of Helmut Käser’s trip to an IFAB meeting in Newcastle, County Down in 1967.
It includes windows into the worlds of air travel, contemporary Northern Ireland, and swinging London, based on a scrapbook kept by the man himself, and demonstrates the potential of scrapbooks for archival ethnography.
#openaccess #histodons #businesshistoryhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449359.2024.2423092#abstract
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Just published a review essay and reflection of Harvard Business School's recent conference "Oral History of Business in the Global South" in the April Interfaces.
#globalsouth #businesshistory #laborhistory #HarvardBusinessSchool #HBS #oralhistory #CreatingEmergingMarkets
@histodons
@commodon
@managementArticle at https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
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Just published a review essay and reflection of Harvard Business School's recent conference "Oral History of Business in the Global South" in the April Interfaces.
#globalsouth #businesshistory #laborhistory #HarvardBusinessSchool #HBS #oralhistory #CreatingEmergingMarkets
@histodons
@commodon
@managementArticle at https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
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Just finished this little volume, which in France has seen substantial sales well beyond academia and translation into a number of languages.
Chapoutot uses the career of sometime SS officer turned postwar business school leader Reinhard Höhn to make connections between the social darwinism of the Nazis, "classical liberalism", and modern management.
I'm not qualified to pronounce on the soundness of the business history, but I found the discussion of Nazi hostility to the state and the corporate jargon of "empowerment" illuminating.
Free to Obey - Johann Chapoutot
https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609458041/free-to-obey
#JohannChapoutot #GermanHistory #BusinessHistory #Management #ReinhardHöhn #History
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Just finished this little volume, which in France has seen substantial sales well beyond academia and translation into a number of languages.
Chapoutot uses the career of sometime SS officer turned postwar business school leader Reinhard Höhn to make connections between the social darwinism of the Nazis, "classical liberalism", and modern management.
I'm not qualified to pronounce on the soundness of the business history, but I found the discussion of Nazi hostility to the state and the corporate jargon of "empowerment" illuminating.
Free to Obey - Johann Chapoutot
https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609458041/free-to-obey
#JohannChapoutot #GermanHistory #BusinessHistory #Management #ReinhardHöhn #History
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Please see CBI Sr. Res. Fellow Jim Cortada 's insightful essay on IBM Corporate Culture in Interfaces! Drawn in part from his impressive recent book Inside IBM: Lessons from a Corporate Culture in Action (Columbia Business School Press, 2023).
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Please see CBI Sr. Res. Fellow Jim Cortada 's insightful essay on IBM Corporate Culture in Interfaces! Drawn in part from his impressive recent book Inside IBM: Lessons from a Corporate Culture in Action (Columbia Business School Press, 2023).
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I've written a guest post on the world famous Ladybird Books on 'Lynne about Loughborough', the wonderful blog curated by local historian Lynne Dyer. The post tells the unusual history of how a local jobbing printer in an Eastmidlands market town became a global publisher.
https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2023/12/ladybird-books-from-jobbing-printers-to.html
#loughborough #loughboroughheritage #ladybirdbooks #publishinghistory #businesshistory #bookstodon
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CFP: We at the School for Business and Society, University of York will be hosting the
Economic and Business History Society and Association of Business Historians
joint conference in York next year!This promises to be a big event so don't miss out! #businesshistory #managementhistory #histodons #history #business
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Last week we visited the @FootballMuseum exhibition on football games, before doing some research at their archive in Preston on Tuesday. #histodons #businesshistory #managementhistory #sporthistory
Read about the visit here - https://soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2023/11/soccer-mad-boffins-autumn-games.html
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Great to see this new paper from Neveen Abdelrehim & co on Robert Stephenson & Co, on the 198th anniversary of the Stockdon & Darlington opening! https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2255140
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Extremely proud of Alex Gillett and I's contribution to this exciting new volume - our chapter focuses on how to do research in an archive - and we hope it will be a valuable methodological guide to anyone interested in archival research in the management field but who isn't quite sure how to do it! #businesshistory #managementhistory #organizationalhistory #histodons
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-historical-methods-for-management-9781800883734.html
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Informal networks facilitating trust & co-operation among merchant groups in Republican China point to the economic importance of informal institutions & cultural identity New open access article by Lingyu Kong, Cheng Cheng & Wenxiao Wang in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12271 @econhist @devecon @economics @econtwitter.net @networks @ecosocio @organizationalecon @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology #history #histodons #china #bizhis #BusinessHistory -
Informal networks facilitating trust & co-operation among merchant groups in Republican China point to the economic importance of informal institutions & cultural identity New open access article by Lingyu Kong, Cheng Cheng & Wenxiao Wang in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12271 @econhist @devecon @economics @econtwitter.net @networks @ecosocio @organizationalecon @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology #history #histodons #china #bizhis #BusinessHistory -
Just a reminder folks that our deadline for this is coming up! #businesshistory #managementhistory #BAM #organizationalhistory
https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/the-origins-and-evolution-of-professional-football-clubs-from-a-business-management-and-organizational-history-perspective.html -
Today in #Connecticut History, April 3: The Sewing Machine Patent Wars
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TODAYINCTHISTORY.comhttps://todayincthistory.com/2023/04/03/april-3-the-sewing-machine-patent-wars-4/
#19thcentury #americaninventors #april #bridgeport #businessandindustry #businesshistory #connecticuthistory #connecticutinnovators #connecticutinventors #eliashowe #howemachinecompany #industrialhistory #industrialrevolution #innovation #inventionandtechnology #isaacsinger
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The latest issue of Enterprise & Society has articles on the history of branding -- Ferrari's horse--and history of invention/patenting -- Halliburton v. Walker
#IPHistory #patent #Trademark #LegalHistory #BusinessHistorySadly, paywalled.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/issue/BE4DD48025D7F1749788DBAB925E31A5 -
The latest issue of Enterprise & Society has articles on the history of branding -- Ferrari's horse--and history of invention/patenting -- Halliburton v. Walker
#IPHistory #patent #Trademark #LegalHistory #BusinessHistorySadly, paywalled.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/issue/BE4DD48025D7F1749788DBAB925E31A5 -
Cool collection of essays on #BusinessHistory methods (not an edited volume but a special issue). No paywall!
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmor20/collections/methods_and_madness -
Cool collection of essays on #BusinessHistory methods (not an edited volume but a special issue). No paywall!
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmor20/collections/methods_and_madness -
Today in #Connecticut History, March 11: She Taught a Man’s World How to Build a Business
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TODAYINCTHISTORY.comhttps://todayincthistory.com/2023/03/11/march-11-she-taught-a-mans-world-how-to-build-a-business/
#20thcentury #beatricefoxauerbach #beatricefoxauerbachfoundation #businessandindustry #businesshistory #connecticutbusinesses #connecticuthistory #connecticutinnovation #connecticutwomen #gfox #gfoxandco #georgeauerbach #gersonfox #hartford
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Four more days to the Workshop on Women & Business History, Feb 9 @ UTS, Sydney!
First-ever meeting for research on women in Australian business history. 12 exciting papers draw links btw research on women’s history, women in business & management & Aus business history - drawing connections among gender, corporate capitalism, race, sexuality, (dis)ability, age, class
https://claireefwright.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Women-and-business-history-program-23.01.23.pdf @claire_wright #BusinessHistory #Australia #gender #women #NZ #history #leadership #feminism #management -
Workshop on Women & Business History, Feb 9 at UTS, Sydney
First-ever meeting for research on women in Australian business history. 12 exciting papers draw links btw research on women’s history, women in business & management & Aus business history - discussing connections among gender, corporate capitalism, race, sexuality, (dis)ability, age, class, etc
https://claireefwright.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Women-and-business-history-program-23.01.23.pdf Organized by @claire_wright
#BusinessHistory #Australia #gender #women #NZ #history #leadership #feminism #management -
Workshop on Women & Business History, Feb 9 at UTS, Sydney, Aus
First-ever meeting for research on women in Australian business history. 12 exciting papers draw links between those working on women’s history, women in business & management & Aus business history - discussing connections among gender, corporate capitalism, race, sexuality, (dis)ability, age, class, etc
https://claireefwright.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Women-and-business-history-program-23.01.23.pdf @histodons #BusinessHistory #Australia #gender #women #NZ #history #leadership #feminism #management -
Want to know what the Soccer-Mad Boffins have been doing the last few years?
Watch the video!
#soccer #football #history #histodons #managementhistory #businesshistory
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We are looking to continue our Career Development Fellow scheme
@UoY_SBS
- applicants from #business and #management historians welcome! #mbh #businesshistory #managementhistory #organizationalhisotry
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Between 1990 and 1992, #Toronto pizza chain, Pizza Pizza took former VP Paul Gillespie to court after he left and started Chicken Chicken, a quick service and delivery chicken restaurant (with a similar 30min or it’s free delivery guarantee, and centralized call center). Yesterday, I was shocked to see Chicken Chicken appear as a ghost kitchen on Uber Eats (sold from Pizza Pizza locations). Looks like the TM was bought back! #FoodHistory #BusinessHistory #Histodons #CdnHist
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Hello #histodon! I am the author of a book on Charleston’s merchants in the Revolutionary era, and am in the very early stages of a new project that will use the Stephen Girard papers to analyze how the European wars affected American trade in the Early Republic. Looking for more fans or #economichistory and #businesshistory.
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Hello #histodon! I am the author of a book on Charleston’s merchants in the Revolutionary era, and am in the very early stages of a new project that will use the Stephen Girard papers to analyze how the European wars affected American trade in the Early Republic. Looking for more fans or #economichistory and #businesshistory.