Scholars' Projects

In the summer of 2015 I spent one week at the Hagley collecting research on organized philanthropy, funded by an exploratory grant from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society.

The papers of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and his two sons, Victor Marie and Éleuthère Irénée, have given us new insights on our project which focuses on the diplomatic culture of the French Revolution.

I received a one-week Hagley Exploratory grant to conduct research in January 2016 on the history of saving and investing.

Ernest Dichter is most well-known as a pioneer of motivational marketing research, an approach to marketing that emphasized the unconscious nature of consumer motives.

I came to Hagley on a research grant for my project on the development of telephone buildings in the Bell Telephone system monopoly across its first century.

The Avon Products collection at Hagley can be a great source for studying the history of international business, consumer culture, and gender.

The concept of return on investment (ROI) is one that is heard every day in the business world.

My research at Hagley (supported by a research grant) aimed at finding if/how large American industrial corporations influenced the transformation of the international financial regime, catalyzing the rise of global finance during the past several