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Henrietta M. Larson: An Appreciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Ralph W. Hidy  and
Muriel E. Hidy
Ralph W. Hidy
Affiliation:
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Muriel E. Hidy
Affiliation:
Business History Foundation, Inc.
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In 1959 Harvard University, for the first time, appointed a woman to a full professorship at its Graduate School of Business Administration. The new Professor of Business History, Henrietta Melia Larson, was no stranger to her colleagues at the institution where she had worked since 1928 nor to the business historians of the United States. She was known as an outstanding scholar in her field and widely respected for her attainments. At this period of her semi-retirement from Harvard it seems appropriate to honor her by dedicating to her this issue of the Business History Review and by evaluating the contributions which she has already made to her profession.

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Obituary
Information
Business History Review , Volume 36 , Issue 1: Business History Conference Issue Dedicated to Henrietta M. Larson , Spring 1962 , pp. 2 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1962

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1 The other two academic sisters are: Larson, Agnes, Ph.D., Radcliffe College, author of White Pine Industry in Minnesota (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1949)Google Scholar and recently retired as head of the History Department of St. Olaf; and Nora Larson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, now a member of the Biology Department at St. Olaf College.

2 “A Medieval Swedish Mining Company,” Vol. II, no. 3 (May, 1930), pp. 545–559; “S. & M. Allen – Lottery, Exchange, and Stock Brokerage,” Vol. III, no. 3 (May, 1931), pp. 424–445; “E. W. Clark & Co., 1837–1857,” Vol. IV, no. 3 (May, 1932), pp. 429–460.

3 See also Larson, Henrietta M., “A China Trader turns Investor — a Biographical Chapter in American Business History,” Harvard Business Review, Vol. XI (April, 1934), pp. 345–358.Google Scholar

4 The Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, Inc. was started in June, 1926, under the editorship of the secretary of the society, Frank C. Ayres. From February, 1936, it was edited for two years by Ralph M. Hower. Henrietta Larson acted as editor from February, 1938, through its last issue of December, 1953. The Business History Review was first published in March, 1954.

5 “The Armor Business in the Middle Ages,” Vol. XIV (Oct., 1940), pp. 49–64; “Capitalism – Concepts and History,” Vol. XIV (April, 1942), pp. 39–42; “Some Unexplored Fields in American Railroad History,” Vol. XVI (Oct., 1942), pp. 69–79; “The Social Implications of Business Administration: Past and Present,” Vol. XVII (Feb., 1943), pp. 27–31; “An Early Industrial Capitalist's Labor Policy and Management,” Vol. XVIII (Nov., 1944), pp. 132–141; “Business Men as Collectors,” Vol. XVIII (Dec., 1944), pp. 162–170.

6 “‘Plutarch's Lives’ of Trade: The First Series of American Business Biographies,” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, Vol. XX (Feb., 1946), pp. 28–32; “Business History: Retrospect and Prospect,” ibid., Vol. XXI (Dec., 1947), pp. 173–199. The last-mentioned was a significant contribution to the history of the field itself.

7 Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy, Pioneering in Big Business, 1882–1911 (Harper & Brothers).

8 George S. Gibb and Evelyn H. Knowlton, Resurgent Years, 1911–1927 (Harper & Brothers).

9 Article by-products of the Standard Oil project for Henrietta Larson have been the following: “Availability of Records for Research in the History of Large Business Concerns,” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, Vol. XXII (Feb., 1948), pp. 12–21; “Problems and Challenges in Business History Research with Special Reference to the History of Business Administration and Operation,” ibid., Vol. XXIV (Sept., 1950), pp. 120–135; and “The Rise of Big Business in the Oil Industry,” Oil's First Century (Boston, 1960), pp. 27–42.

10 Henrietta Larson was co-editor with N. S. B. Gras, 1948–1950, and with T. R. Navin, 1950–1955.