Scholars' Projects

Articles authored by visiting scholars about their research at the Hagley Library. For more information about funding opportunities from Hagley, visit our Research Funding page

July 20, 2016
Research: Thrift in America
I received a one-week Hagley Exploratory grant to conduct research in January 2016 on the history of saving and investing.
February 19, 2016
The Manager as Motivator - Ernest Dichter's "Top Man" Training Seminars
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.
January 21, 2016
A Glance at the MCI Perspective on the Bell Monopoly
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.
December 18, 2015
Avon in Brazil
The Avon Products collection at Hagley can be a great source for studying the history of international business, consumer culture, and gender. This collection was central to my examination of Avon’s adaptation to the Brazilian market in the 1960s and 1970s.
November 20, 2015
The Industrial Corporation and Global Finance
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 decades.
November 20, 2015
The Father of ROI: Donaldson Brown
The concept of return on investment (ROI) is one that is heard every day in the business world. Intuitively, the idea seems straightforward enough…if a firm wants to invest money into a project or product, then it should generate income or reduce costs that will benefit the firm over time.
October 15, 2015
Business and Religion - Charles Lukens Huston and Cyrus Ingerson Scofield
September 18, 2015
A German Box of Color
Doing research at an archive is sometimes like playing detective. You’ll come across a document or an object which seems rather mysterious - a simple description, undated and looking rather irrelevant for your topic. But it catches your attention and will stick in your mind like an open case.

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