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Project Archivist the Missionary Society of St. Columban, Bellevue, NE
Project Archivist the Missionary Society of St. Columban
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Digital Content Management Archivist for Institutional Collections, Harvard University Archives
Lead Archivist, Cummins Heritage Center
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About Kara
Prior to joining the Winthrop Group in 2022, Kara was the Project Manager for the Colonial North America Project at Harvard Library, and previously held positions at MIT, Backstage Library Works, and the New-York Historical Society.
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Michael R. Adamson has more than 25 years of consulting experience in the areas of organizational history, environmental impact assessment, historic preservation, litigation support, and business information systems. He also has taught U.S. history part time at Sacramento State University and Sonoma State University. He is the author of two books, A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies (Purdue University Press, 2013) and Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast: Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West (West Virginia University Press, 2018). His many essays on topics in business and urban history, natural resource development, and U.S. foreign economic policy have appeared as articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in books.
Digital Archivist, New York University
Corporate Archivist, AT&T Archives & History Center
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About Leslie
Leslie Armbruster is Lead Archivist at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, where she has held a variety of archival positions since 1999. Her experience in disaster preparedness, moving archival collections, and large-scale digitization projects complements her work in collections management. While at Ford Motor Company she has supported departmental and corporation-wide anniversary projects. Leslie worked at the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives and the General Motor Media Archives early in her career and completed practicum work at the Plymouth (MI) Historical Museum.
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About MacKenzie
MacKenzie earned her Master's degree in Archives and Record Management in 2022. Prior to her position at Winthrop, she worked with the Stonehill College Archives as an undergraduate student. She is excited to use her archival skills and knowledge to help further the use of corporate archives in celebrating heritage and fulfilling strategic goals.
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About Lucretia
Prior to joining Winthrop Group, Lucretia was a rare books cataloger at The New-York Historical Society. She enjoys working with a wide range of materials, informed by her training in library science and art history. While in library school, Lucretia held one of two inaugural Simmons College Sharf Fellowships at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Before becoming a librarian, she worked for art galleries and museums, with a focus on graphic arts.
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Manuel A. Bautista González is a Mexican economist and an economic and financial historian of the United States. He is a specialist in the economic, financial, and business history of the Americas, with particular focus on the United States and Mexico. He has worked in TV production, commercial banking, research, and higher education. His dissertation examines several topics on the history of money, trade, and finance in antebellum New Orleans (1840-1862). He wrote a chapter on plurality of currencies in antebellum New Orleans for the edited book The Book of Payments. Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016). He has taught courses at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Columbia University in the City of New York.
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Librarian/Archivist - George Mercer Jr. Memorial School of Theology
Project Archivist - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art & NY Historical Society
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Records and Archive Librarian, Office of the Secretary of the State of Connecticut
Sir David Cannadine, the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, is a leading scholar of modern British social, cultural, political, and imperial history, with a particular focus on the British aristocracy, urban development, class, wealth, and philanthropy. A busy commentator and broadcaster on both sides of the Atlantic, he is the author of many books, including Mellon: An American Life, a biography of Andrew W. Mellon. His most recent book is The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences.
Pankaj Ghemawat is the Global Professor of Management and Strategy, and the director of the Center for the Globalization of Education and Management at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is also the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. The bestselling author of numerous books, articles, and case studies on global business strategy, including the widely praised World 3.0 Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It, he is an expert in globalization, market integration, and leadership development.
It is one of those deals that makes all the business pages, but Winthrop History Advisory Board member Pankaj Ghemawat wants to take a broader view on how globalization effects "platform" companies.
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Shira Bistricer is the Assistant Archivist in Heritage Services at Citigroup. She received a Masters in Library Science and a Certificate in Archives and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Materials from Queens College in 2012. She also holds a Masters in World History from New York University. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, she worked as a Project Processing Archivist at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, as Special Collections Fellow at the Queens College Library’s Special Collections and Archives and interned at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her background also includes positions at ACLS Humanities E-Book, Lilith Magazine and Oxford University Press. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and the Archivist’s Roundtable of Metropolitan New York.
How does Citi Center for Culture use the past to define their future?
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Marcelo Bucheli conducts research on the political strategies of multinational corporations in developing countries. Marcelo teaches international business and business history at the College of Business at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), USA. He was the Newcomen Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School (2004-2005), where he taught at the MBA program, the John Dunning Fellow in International Business at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK (2014-2016), and a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique (Paris). He is the author of Bananas and Business: United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000 (New York University Press, 2005) and co-editor of Organizations in Time (Oxford University Press, 2014) with Dan Wadhwani. He has written dozens of articles in management and history journals (including several award winning ones) as well as articles for practitioners in Harvard Business Review.
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About Kerri Anne
Kerri Anne was named a Lead Archivist at The Winthrop Group. For the past four years Kerri Anne has worked at the Citi Center for Culture, Heritage Collection, formerly known as Citigroup Archives. She is the Head of Heritage Services. Kerri Anne also oversees the Winthrop project at The Vanguard Group. Her previous archival experience has included projects at The New-York Historical Society, NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
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Stephen Chambers is a Senior Consultant and the Managing Director of the History Services Division at The Winthrop Group. Prior to joining the firm, he served as the Senior Writer/Editor with Analysis Group, one of the largest economic and financial consultancies in the United States, where he oversaw all thought leadership, content marketing, and communications strategies. He has worked as a consultant with Monitor Group and as a senior advisor with the merchant banking and advisory services firm, Rosc Global LLC. Stephen writes and consults on strategic management, and is an expert in U.S. business history, generational change and leadership, and reputational strategy. An experienced editor, Stephen worked at Random House and is the author of diverse works of fiction, business, and history, including, most recently, No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States (New York: Verso Books, 2015).
A family’s story can have a profound impact on philanthropy. As family historians, we have found that many of our clients know at least a little bit about their past.
Winthrop Group takes a moment this summer to reflect on the value of authenticity and offers 5 tips for engaging with history to strengthen your career.
In the recent article, “Let Go of What Made Your Company Great,” (Harvard Business Review, April 13, 2016), Vijay Govindarajan raises an excellent question: how is it possible for an organization to selectively forget the past in order to try new things?
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Emily Cottle, is Winthrop’s Lead Corporate Archivist at The Vanguard Group. Emily is charged with creating the corporate archives. Her background includes positions as University Archivist at the Delaware State University William C. Jason Library and Project Archivist at the Hagley Museum and Library.
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About Emily
Emily is the Lead Archivist in Seattle, Washington, providing archival services throughout the Pacific Northwest. She has been working in libraries and archives for over ten years, with a particular expertise in audiovisual preservation and community archives. Prior to joining Winthrop, she worked for King County Archives and Seattle Opera, where she founded the company’s first Archives program. She interned with Densho in Seattle. She also served as a working board member for the Zine Archive and Publishing Project from 2014 until its closure in 2017.
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Max earned a Master’s degree in History from Purdue University with a concentration in the history of NASA and the Space Program in 2016. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, he worked at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections in West Lafayette, Indiana. Max also interned in the National Air and Space Museum’s Space History Department in the summers of 2015 and 2016.
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About Lauren
Prior to joining Winthrop as a Processing Assistant, Lauren worked as a Library Assistant at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, a 17th and 18th century special collections library. After two years of working at the Clark, Lauren went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from University College London.
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Ciera Casteel is an Assistant Archivist for Audio Visual Processing at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Her work includes processing both physical and digital materials. Ciera has prior archival experience with the Detroit Sound Conservancy, the Reuther Library and Archives, and the Burton Historical Collection.
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Suzana has worked at Winthrop with numerous clients, including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The Ford Foundation, and The Museum of Modern Art. Before joining Winthrop, she was an Archives Assistant at MIT's Institute Archives & Special Collections and Senior Archives Technician in the Manuscript Reading Room at the Library of Congress. Suzana is also a 2013 Library of Congress Junior Fellow and has held internships at the Sudbury Historical Society and Bentley University.
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About Celeste
Celeste Chow received a Master's in Library Science and a Certificate in Archives and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Materials from Queens College in 2023. While in school she gained experience working with a diverse array of collections, ranging from corporate archives to small non-profits. Prior to joining Winthrop, she was one of two students selected to participate in the Citi Center for Culture + Queens Library Fellowship. She also interned at the ABC No Rio zine library, where she processed the personal papers of the late musician Jack Terricloth.
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About Michael
Prior to Winthrop, Michael was a cataloger at the 9/11 Memorial Museum for eight years where he cataloged the museum's oral history collection and developed standardized procedures and workflows for the intake and preservation of born digital and digitized objects (photographs, audio, and videos). Michael was also a contract archivist at the New York Transit Museum where he cataloged 19th century maps of the Long Island Railroad, a Corporate Archives intern at The Associated Press, and a graduate Archival Assistant at New York University's Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
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About Scott
Before coming to Winthrop, Scott worked as a librarian and educator teaching history, physics, and chemistry to middle and high school students. Additionally, Scott spent several years as a systems librarian at the Southwest Research Institute’s Slick Library curating their rare books collection and developing and administering the library’s website and databases. At AT&T Scott enjoys researching and bringing order to the archival materials amassed throughout the company’s 143-year history. He is particularly interested in the groundbreaking discoveries at Bell Telephone Laboratories and takes pleasure in studying and preserving vintage telephones, switchboards, and other unique artifacts.
Scott is an avid cyclist, carpenter, and bibliophile. He is the proud father of energetic twin boys and spends his down time in a cabin he built in his backyard.
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About Colleen
Colleen has worked extensively with a wide range of materials including: digital records, oral histories, photographs and audio-visual materials. Her work has involved preserving physical materials, researching music and civil rights history, as well as helping establish digital archives and electronic records systems. Prior to working for Winthrop Group, Colleen worked as a Digital Collections Specialist for the National Science Foundation project “Bridging Learning in Urban Extended Spaces” co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, TN. She also worked as a research assistant at UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection, and as one of the first Atkins fellows at UNC-Charlotte’s Special Collections & University Archives. She hopes to help more organizations tell their stories and make information accessible to their audiences.
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Jessica is currently the Processing Archivist at IBM. In 2012 she received a Masters in Library and Information Science with a Certificate in Advanced Studies in Archives and Records Management and a concentration in Rare Books and Special Collections from Long Island University. Prior to joining Winthrop, she was employed as an Archivist for the Maryknoll Mission Archives and a Project Archivist for Mount Saint Mary College. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, and the Academy of Certified Archivists. Outside of work, Jessica enjoys traveling, cooking, and attending concerts.
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Lauren Dreger is an Archivist at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Her work includes supporting collections in appraisal, arrangement, and description, as well as fielding research requests. Lauren has prior work experience with General Motors, the Historic Ford Estates, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Heidi Druckemiller is an historian, researcher, and writer who specializes in family history and architectural and urban history. Prior to joining The Winthrop Group, Heidi held the title of Senior Historian & Senior Vice President at Wells Fargo, where she spent seven years creating comprehensive family history projects on behalf of select clients and prospects. She led a team of fellow historians and oversaw an exhaustive research, writing, and editing process during the development of dozens of presentations. Heidi has also worked as a communications specialist and as a producer of digital exhibitions and documentary films for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. She is passionate about bespoke book publishing and authors original monographs for clients that showcase their historic homes, real estate properties, family histories, and heritage abroad.
In this podcast for Wealth of Wisdom, Winthrop Historian Heidi Druckemiller discusses the chapter she wrote for the book on how the story of your past can give your life meaning in ways that you can’t yet imagine.
A family’s story can have a profound impact on philanthropy. As family historians, we have found that many of our clients know at least a little bit about their past.
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Queenie is currently working to complete her M.L.I.S. degree with a concentration in Archives and Preservation during her time working at Winthrop. Previously, she has interned for The Huntington Library, the Library of Congress, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art within the special collections and archives.
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Elizabeth (Beth) Fox-Corbett, is an Associate Archivist with Winthrop’s client Citigroup in their Heritage Services division of Citi's Center for Culture. Her background includes pro bono work as Archivist with the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (BWRC) at New York City College of Technology and the Rimersburg Veterans Museum, Intern Archivist at CUNA Mutual Group, Digital Archives Project Assistant at the Wisconsin State Historical Society, and Data Wrangler at the University of Louisville’s Special Collections - Photographic Archives. She has made presentations at the Society of American Archivists Annual Conference on the cultural memory of the American Civil War and at the Midwest Archives Conference titled "Reaching Virtually Everyone-Virtually". She also directed the University of Wisconsin-Madison's SAA-Student Chapter's annual American Archives Month theme blog.
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About Linda
Linda's profession and career often have intersected with personal interests in history, business, philanthropy, politics, visual and performing arts. Learning from her work and sharing the insights and knowledge gained from a wide-ranging and rich array of archival resources has provided contacts and intellectual rewards she feels privileged to enjoy. At this juncture, Linda's primary career-related goals and objectives are tied to assisting her Winthrop colleagues who will continue the important work with our clients. Extra-curriculars: reading, running, skiing, hiking, gardening, visiting musuems, attending performing arts events, and spending time with her daughter Anna, her brother and his family, and friends.
With the nomination of Janet Yellen, media coverage of stories that include the Federal Reserve System emerge daily. This, along with James Bruce’s just released documentary “Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve”, have ginned up what may be an unprecedented curiosity about the US central bank
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Victoria graduated with a dual Master’s degree in History and Library Science (MLS/MA) from the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College in 2021. Prior to joining Winthrop, she was the Museum Coordinator at the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, CUNY and served as the inaugural Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Civil Rights and Social Justice Archives Fellow at the Queens College Library’s Special Collection and Archives. She has also worked at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY and the Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History. Outside of work, Victoria enjoys cooking, traveling, and spending time with her Wheaten Terrier, Sol.
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Amanda received a Master’s in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives and Records Management in 2017. She particularly enjoys the sense of discovery working with different archival collections provides and is passionate about connecting people to archives and raising awareness about their use. She is also currently on the editorial team for BloggERS, the blog for Electronic Records Section of SAA. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, she worked with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the San Jose State University's Department of Special Collections and Archives. She has also volunteered at History San Jose and the San Jose Public Library. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her rescue cat.
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Amelia received a Master’s in Library and Information Science and an Advanced Certificate in Archives from Pratt Institute in 2016. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, she worked as a Project Archivist at the American Civil Liberties Union, National Archives, and interned at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Archives. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.
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Hannah Grant is a Processing Archivist at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Her work includes processing both physical and digital collections. Hannah has prior archival experience with the Detroit Institute of Arts, as well as rare books experience with the Wayne State Special Collections Library.
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In 2022, Emma received dual Master’s degrees in Archives and Library Science from New York University and Long Island University respectively. Prior to her current role at Winthrop, she served as the Project Archivist at the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY. She has also worked at NYU Archival Collections Management as a Graduate Student Assistant, served as a Gardiner Foundation Fellow at the Palmer School, and held internships at CUNY-TV and New-York Historical Society.
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Annalise earned a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archival Management from Simmons University in 2022. Before joining Winthrop, she was the Project Archivist for Marist College’s Archives and Special Collections. Annalise has several years of paleography training and has held internships at Historic Huguenot Street, the West Point Museum, and the Atlanta History Center. Outside work, she enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her husband and two dogs.
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Member, Board of Directors, Whidbey Childrens Theater
The history of Pendleton Woolen Mills provides a case study of how an understanding of a company’s history, culture, and ownership has contributed to the firm’s survival
For many CEOs, the past is a powerful tool in public relations, marketing, and branding, where heritage resources become points of leverage over the competition. Historical materials are the building blocks; especially valuable are historical photographs, slogans, and logos.
In part one of this series, we discussed the critical need for preservation of our historical bridges and the records that document them. Today, we look at who keeps these records and how the documentation is changing.
Bridges are at once thoroughly practical structures and icons of the American landscape. As a unique part of our infrastructure, they play a special role in transportation and history, and often have immense local historical importance.
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Tim, a Senior Consultant of The Winthrop Group, has over 30 years of experience as an author and editor. His areas of expertise include energy, environmental services, medicine and health care, communications, legal and financial services, and education. In addition to consulting with CEOs, directors, and senior managers at dozens of clients, he has ventured far into the field, from top-level negotiations in China to the oil fields of the Middle East. His many books include, most recently, Charity and Merit: Trinity School at 300 and Cotton’s Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation. Before joining Winthrop, he founded Chicago Times magazine and served as editor of both Chicago History and the 51-volume book series, The States and the Nation. Mr. Jacobson’s other writings include An Historical Guide to the United States (W. W. Norton), Discovering America: Journeys in Search of the New World (Key Porter), and An American Journey by Rail (W. W. Norton), which was runner-up for the Lowell Thomas Prize for best North American travel book of 1988.
By the very nature of their “independence,” no two independent schools are identical. Yet all rise or fall on the answer to an old question: what is the place of independent education in a democratic society that educates the vast majority of its children in other kinds of schools? Given independent education’s tiny “lift capacity,” why should we care about the answer?
Once upon a time, we called it the art of medicine. Then we called it the science of medicine. Then we called it health care. Today we call it a mess. Arguably no public policy issue of our times stirs more impassioned, often embittered, sometimes irrational debate than this one. How did it happen that the ancient art of healing as it evolved into the citadel of biomedical science became so embattled?
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Monica Kenzie is Lead Archivist at the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy in Detroit, Michigan. Her work involves creating an institutional archive from the ground up, and includes processing both physical and digital materials. Monica has worked previously in archives and libraries at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Kate earned a Master’s degree in Library & Information Science with a concentration in Archives and Records Management in 2018. Before joining the Winthrop Group, she worked with the Archives and Special Collections at the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Library. She has also held internships at the Yonkers Public Library, the New Museum, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Pacific Office.
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John's professional interests include digitization and the role of digital archives. He contributes weekly articles and virtual walking tours to ArtNerd New York titled LitNerd Wednesday highlighting the literary history of New York City.
The launch last week of the Digital Public Library of America offers the public a chance to see 2.4 million archival items normally out of reach. This brings up the much debated topic of the role libraries and archives play in the digital age – specifically, do we need them in a publicly accessible physical space?
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Lois joined The Winthrop Group in 2004 with management and archival experience in the non-profit sector. Her Winthrop clients include Saint Paul's Chapel (9/11 Collection), the United Nations, and the Oskar Diethelm Library at Cornell University's Weil Medical College. She has worked also with The Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Junior League of New York and the insurance company, CNA. Ms. Kauffman holds a M.A. in art history from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is certified by The Academy of Certified Archivists, and is a member of the Society of American Archivists, the Mid-Atlantic Archives Conference, The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, and the American Association of Museums.
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Molly graduated with a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the Information School at the University of Washington in 2022. Prior to joining Winthrop, Molly interned at the corporate archives of a leading pharmaceutical company, where her primary role was to process the extensive research papers of a Nobel prize-winning biochemist. She has also worked as a registration intern at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Outside of work, Molly enjoys crafting, baking, and reading with her rescue cat, Joni.
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Before joining the Winthrop Group, Emily completed a graduate internship in Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University, working in University Archives and Arrangement and Description. She processed collections including rare books and manuscripts, ephemera, student records, audiovisual, and digital materials, as well as consulted with university administration in order to appraise and select records for retention in the university archives. Prior to this work, Emily was a legal assistant at one of Connecticut’s largest family law firms for three years.
Emily is a former college athlete who played varsity softball at Eastern Connecticut State University. She continues to remain involved in the sport as a coach and pitching instructor. She spends the rest of her free time with her two dogs.
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John Landry, a senior consultant with The Winthrop Group, has more than 20 years of experience as a historian, business writer, and editor, including 13 years as an editor at Harvard Business Review. He has written or edited scores of articles, blog posts and books, and has worked closely with CEOs and other senior executives to select and develop their ideas for publication. Landry, who has a Ph.D. in economic history from Brown University, is the author of a confidential history of a global management consulting firm and the co-author of two books: Mylan: 50 Years of Unconventional Success (with John Seaman) and From the Rivers: The Origins and Growth of the New England Electric System (with Jeffrey Cruikshank).
It’s become part of the conventional wisdom: The internet and globalization have combined to render almost every company vulnerable to greater competition than ever.
Harvard Business Review editors go to work every day on articles they hope will make their mark on the history of management thinking.
In HBR and elsewhere, a number of authors have wrung their hands about the public legitimacy of business.
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Bill Levay is a digital archivist and digital projects consultant. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, Bill worked as the metadata and systems librarian at the California Historical Society, and led the Bay Area Reporter digitization project at the GLBT Historical Society, both in San Francisco. He also has experience in corporate archives and digital asset management. While a student at Pratt Institute, Bill worked on the Linked Jazz project where he conceived and implemented ways to enhance the discoverability and accessibility of jazz-related digital resources, including photo archives and discographies, using linked open data tools and best practices. Bill compiled the discography for the book Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of The First Guitar Hero by Ed Ward (Chicago Review Press, 2016), which was named Best Discography of 2017 in the Blues, Gospel, Soul or R&B category by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.
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Eunice returned to Winthrop in early 2015 to lead the McKinsey & Company Archives project. Prior to her return, she was at the Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives where she held archivist and project librarian positions, and represented the Museum Archives in the department’s social media team. She also consulted on various projects for private collectors and artists’ collections. Additionally, Eunice has worked on archives projects for the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She always keeps an eye out for interesting happenings at the museums, galleries, and cultural institutions which abound in New York City.
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David Lerer is a historian of modern Europe and the United States, with particular interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic, financial, and social history. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, he worked in policy communications for a family foundation and as project manager for a medical translations company. His dissertation examines efforts by savings bankers, co-operative movements, trade unions, and other corporate actors to establish international financial institutions in the first half of the twentieth century. He currently teaches Contemporary Civilization, a seminar in political and social theory in Columbia University’s Core Curriculum, and has previously taught courses in modern European and American history.
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Isabelle, a Senior Consultant with The Winthrop Group, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Business at the University of San Francisco and Assistant Professor of Economic History, University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). She has also taught at Oxford University, Columbia University, and the Stern School of Business at New York University. Ms. Lescent-Giles is the author or co-author of dozens of articles and essays. Her current research focuses on the national legacies of multinational firms, and how firms can leverage or transcend these legacies for strategic advantage.
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Rachel Louise Martin studies the ordinary people from tiny places who found ways to change the world. Trained in oral history at UNC’s Southern Oral History Program, she specializes in finding the people left out of the archival record. She has taught classes in civil rights history, oral history and public history at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and Middle Tennessee State University. She is also the author of Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021) and A Most Tolerant Little Place: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation (Simon & Schuster, 2023). Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic online, Oxford American, O, the Oprah Magazine, CityLab and elsewhere.
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Lana enjoys connecting people with information and is passionate about promoting archival visibility and access. Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, she most recently served as a Processing Assistant at MIT’s Department of Distinctive Collections. She also has experience working in records management and public library circulation.
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Kevin received Master’s Degrees in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University in 2022. Prior to working at the Winthrop Group, Kevin served as a temporary librarian at the Stevens Memorial Library and has interned and volunteered at several cultural heritage institutions, including The North Andover Historical Society, The USS Albacore Submarine Museum, Pollard Memorial Library, The Lawrence Public Library, The Penobscot Marine Museum, Canterbury Shaker Village, The National Black Doll Museum, and the Marion B. Gebbie Special Collections at Wheaton College.
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Rachel is passionate about historical research and writing. Outside of archives and history, she enjoys making pottery (on the wheel) and swimming.
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About Brooke
Before joining the Winthrop Group, Brooke worked for five years as a processing archivist for digitization initiatives at Harvard Library, including the Colonial North America at Harvard Library Project. She was previously an archives assistant at the Harvard Art Museums Archives. Brooke received a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Simmons in 2012.
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About Michael
Michael takes great personal pleasure in creating access to collections to release their potential. Coupled with the experiences of being a freelance consulting archivist, Michael has displayed his talents for institutions like American Public University System and the Center for Jewish History. Staying true to his New Jersey roots, Michael commutes from there to the Hudson Valley in NY where he represents Winthrop at IBM.
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About Gregory
Gregory DL Morris is an independent business journalist and historian. He is principal and editorial director of Enterprise & Industry Historic Research and co-author of A History of the Theatre Costume Industry (Routledge, 2022). Morris was Gulf Coast bureau chief and global markets editor for ChemicalWeek magazine, executive editor of Bank Investment Marketing magazine, and editor in chief and associate publisher of Today’s Refinery magazine. He has reported from all 50 states, eight Canadian provinces, and 17 countries on five continents. Morris is a member of the Editorial Board of the Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate. He is a second-generation member of the Overseas Press Club, and second-generation Eagle Scout. Morris earned a bachelor of science from Cornell University in journalism and education, with distinction in all subjects.
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About Laura
Laura came to Winthrop from the Fales Library and the Central Park Conservancy. In addition to processing collections Laura has had expierences curating exhibits, working extensively with photographic archives and ensuring the long term safety of collections in storage. Laura did her internship at the New York Public Library.
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About Jean
Jean focuses on client projects that involve born-digital and digitized media, digital archive initiatives, electronic records and digital asset management. Before joining Winthrop, she led a National Digital Stewardship Residency project at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to help streamline the institution’s preservation and management of digital audiovisual assets. She has also worked with special collections, oral histories, and analogue and digital audiovisual materials at a range of institutions including the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the University of Illinois Library system. Outside of work, Jean is an avid cinephile and enjoys cooking, reading, and taking long walks with her puggle Challah
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About Corinne
Since joining Winthrop, Corinne has worked at the United Nations. As Lead Archivist, she oversees a team of Winthrop Archivists, located in the Archives and Records Management Section of the UN. Previous archival experience with Winthrop includes work with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Prior to joining Winthrop Group, Corinne spent time abroad in England, where she was able to volunteer at The National Archives, working on the Royal Navy First World War Crew Project. She was also a Special Collections Fellow at the Queens College Library’s Special Collections and Archives and interned at the Lesbian Herstory Archives,Brooklyn, NY.
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About Hanan
Hanan Ohayon is a Processing Archivist at the Winthrop Group on the McKinsey and Company archive project. He was previously Adjunct Assistant Curator specializing in reference at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. He was a Biographical Metadata Intern at the New York Society Library and also interned at Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. He has also studied photography and worked as a freelance photographer.
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About Virginia
Virginia is an Assistant Archivist at Winthrop’s client, the United Nations, in the Archives and Records Management Section. Prior to joining Winthrop Group, she worked as a Graduate Student Archival Assistant at the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University and held internships at the Burke Library Archives at Columbia University and Rutgers University Special Collections. She has also worked as a Cataloguer for a New York-based autograph dealer. She is a member of the Society
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About Susie
Susie J. Pak is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at St. John's University, New York. She specializes in the study of American banking networks, American race relations, and global business. Her research bridges the divide between social and economic history through the study of quantitative and qualitative methods. Her book, Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J.P. Morgan, was published by Harvard University Press (2013). Pak also serves as the Trustee of the Business History Conference and co-chair of the Columbia University Economic History Seminar. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Business History Review, the Editorial Board of Financial History, the magazine of the Museum of American Finance, and the Editorial Board of Connections, the journal of the International Network of Social Network Analysis.
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About Jacqueline
Jacqueline is dedicated to helping all kinds of people find and use all kinds of information.
Before joining the Winthrop Group, she worked as user experience designer and strategist for a
variety of organizations, processing archivist at New York University, digital archivist at
Princeton Theological Seminary, and copyright project archivist for the Sigmund Freud Archives
Board in New York and Washington DC.
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Before joining Winthrop, Christina worked as the Audio Archivist for the Oregon State Archives in Salem, Oregon. During her time at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she worked as the Media Preservation Graduate Assistant. In her spare time, Christina enjoys finding new restaurants and coffee shops to visit.
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About Rachel
Rachel Sietz is the Digital Archivist at the IBM Corporate Archives. Before joining Winthrop full-time, she was part of a short-term archival survey project with Winthrop at the Women’s Sports Foundation. Previous work experience includes being the Taxonomist at Sears Holding Inc., Processing Clerk at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and volunteer at the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Haddonfield Historical Society in New Jersey. She lives in New York City and enjoys spending time with her wife (Sarah) and cat (Howard), as well as a good slice of 99 cent pizza.
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About Peter
Before joining the Winthrop Group, Peter worked with the Historical Society of Woodstock and as an independent archivist. Previously, he held internships with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Preservation Archive Project, and the NYC Public Design Commission Archives, and was a Graduate Student Assistant with NYU Archives Collections Management.
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About Nora
Prior to joining the Winthrop Group, Nora worked as a BNY Mellon Pre-Professional at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where she processed manuscript collections centered on Black LGBT creators. She worked as Assistant Archivist for Time Inc. at the New-York Historical Society from 2019 to 2020. In addition to her training in archival processing, arrangement and description, she is also experienced with image editing and graphic design and enjoys drawing in her free time.
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About Christian
Christian, a Winthrop consultant, is Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School. His current research focuses on how firms can achieve sustainable competitive advantage through strategies of learning and innovation as well as diversification. Formerly a Visiting Scholar at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, he has published several books and articles, including, most recently, Enduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations. For more on Christian’s work, visit his website: www.christianstadler.org
When you read the business press, it’s easy to get the impression that all you need to do to make your company great is add a charismatic CEO. Find the next Steve Jobs, Jack Welch or Phil Knight and you’re halfway home.
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About Dave
Dave is a co-founder and director of The Winthrop Group and senior partner and Director of Research at Rosc Global, a merchant banking and advisory services firm. Previously he was a partner and group leader with Monitor, the global professional services firm. He is an expert on the evolution of organizations, and the author or co-author of books, articles, and management case studies, including After the Harkness Gift: A History of Phillips Exeter Academy (with Julia Heskel); Performance without Compromise: How Emerson Consistently Achieves Winning Results (with legendary Emerson CEO Charles F. Knight); Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble (with Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario); TRW 1901-2001: A Tradition of Innovation; The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation (with Daniel Gross); and Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation (with Nitin Nohria and Frederick Dalzell). Dyer writes, teaches, and consults widely on strategic management. A former associate editor of Harvard Business Review, he also advises individuals and organizations on communications and publications strategies.
With the recent passing of economic historian David Landes at age 89, the curtain has fallen on an academic career of extraordinary historical significance. One of the all-time greats, Landes produced several masterworks, including:
When you read the business press, it’s easy to get the impression that all you need to do to make your company great is add a charismatic CEO. Find the next Steve Jobs, Jack Welch or Phil Knight and you’re halfway home.
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About Sylvia
Sylvia's professional interests include creative outreach and engagement initiatives and managing digital collections.
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About Sam
Before coming to Winthrop, Sam worked for seven years at the Associated Press where he helped establish the Corporate Archives and showcase AP's history through exhibitions, print publications, and video. He enjoys helping organizations deploy their history in creative ways to tell compelling stories and further their institutional goals. Sam is a lifelong fan of soccer and writes occasional articles on the cultural aspects of "the beautiful game."
Working with the WNYC Archives, Winthrop archivist writes blog post for the 50th anniversary of Landmarks Law describing the Municipal Art Society's work in saving the past half century.
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About Kimberly
Kimberly finds great purpose in bringing order to chaos and in enabling others to be effective custodians of their collections. She has worked with a broad range of collections in public and private institutions, including a Philadelphia radio station, a farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and nine years at the Library of Congress. Kimberly has a strong background in preservation and was the 2010 IMLS Preservation Administration Fellow at Yale University Library.
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George, a founding director of the Winthrop Group, is Clinical Professor of Economics and International Business at NYU Stern School of Business. He teaches and consults on issues in corporate strategy, organization, technology, and international business and public policy. His works include “Anatomy of a Business Strategy,” a prize-winning study of the telephone industry; From Monopoly to Competition, a History of ALCOA; The Transformation of Financial Capitalism (with Richard Sylla), a study of capital markets for which work in progress he was twice named a Glucksman Faculty Fellow; and The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value (with George Baker). He is currently working on a history of credit ratings and a larger history (with Richard Sylla) of the American financial system.
The authors, business historians at the Winthrop Group, argue that leaders with no patience for history are missing a vital truth: A sophisticated understanding of the past is one of the most powerful tools they have for shaping the future.
A study of history yields important clues about what helps economies enjoy sustained economic growth
A founding partner of The Winthrop Group, Margaret Graham is a leading scholar of business research and innovation. Amoung her books are RCA and the VideoDisc: The business of Reasearch and Corning and the Craft of Innovation (with Alec T. Schuldiner). Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School, she has worked at Xerox's advanced research center in Palo Alto. Dr. Graham is currently a member of the faculty with the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, where she teaches and consults in the areas of strategy and innovation, organizational learning, and the management of intellectual assets.
Richard Sylla is a Hamilton scholar, the chairman of the Museum of American Finance, and professor emeritus of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he served as the Henry Kaufman professor of the history of financial institutions and markets for 25 years. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Cliometric Society. He has received the Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Business History Conference Lifetime Achievement Award, National Science Foundation grants, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. He served as president of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference, and was a national Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar (2015–16).
Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute and Faculty in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
Senior Archive Manager, Coach, Inc.
Bonnie Marie Sauer, Archivist
Volunteer Archivist, Peninsula School, Menlo Park, CA; Reference Librarian, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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Archivist, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
Co-Director, Global History of Capitalism, University of Oxford
Head, Collections Services Center for the History of Medicine Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Harvard Medical School
Director, Londsdale Public Library
In part one of this series, we discussed the critical need for preservation of our historical bridges and the records that document them. Today, we look at who keeps these records and how the documentation is changing.
The city, whose name evokes the romance of the exotic to American ears, is a quiet desert town today, but historically was a center of trade and culture. The legacy of that past is thousands of irreplaceable historical manuscripts. Long-term efforts to preserve and organize these texts were ongoing when Timbuktu was overrun by Ansar Dine
Collections Assistant, Archives Specialist, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
