Henrietta Melia Larson

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Henrietta Melia Larson (born September 24, 1894 in Ostrander , Minnesota , † August 25, 1983 in Northfield , Minnesota) was an American professor, editor and writer.

Career

Henrietta Melia Larson, daughter of businessman Hans Olaf Larson and his wife Karen Marie, née Nordgaarden, was born in Fillmore County in 1894 . Nothing is known about their youth. She did a Bachelor of Arts in 1918 . Her student days were overshadowed by the First World War . After graduating, she taught at a high school in Wheaton Minnesota for a year . From 1921 to 1922 she was a teacher at Augustana College in Sioux Falls ( South Dakota ). She then studied from 1922 to 1924 at the University of Minnesota . From 1925 to 1926, Larson taught onBethany College in Lindsborg ( Kansas ) and from 1926 to 1928 at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale ( Illinois ). In 1926, she earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. In the following years she started working at Harvard Business School . She has held a number of positions over the years: Research Associate at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration from 1928 to 1939 , Assistant Professor from 1939 to 1942, Associate Professor from 1942 to 1960, and Full Professor from 1960 until her retirement in 1961 for economic history . Larson was the first woman at Harvard Business School to be appointed full professor.

She has authored several books in the field of economic history. In 1938 she was editor of the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society . Larson sat in 1947 with Canadian professor of economic history Norman Scott Brien grass on the Board of the Business History Foundation, Inc. Your first major joint projects were a multi-volume chronicle of the Standard Oil Company - Holding in New Jersey and a book on the mineral oil companies Humble Oil . In 1948 she became co-editor and in 1950 editor of Harvard Studies in Business History . After the death of NSB Gras in 1955, she continued her work as director. In the course of her work, she was the lead author of the study History of Humble Oil and Refining Company (1959) and the third volume in the History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey): New Horizons, 1927-1950 (1971). The authors Evelyn H. Knowlton and Charles S. Popple supported her with these books.

From 1965 to 1966 spent several months Larson in Ahmedabad ( India ) as a consultant of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) for a program in the company's history at the Ford Foundation .

After her death in 1983 at the age of 88 in Northfield, Rice County , she was buried there in Oaklawn Cemetery .

Works (selection)

  • The Wheat Market and the Farmer in Minnesota, 1858-1900. 1926.
  • Jay Cooke, private banker. Harvard University Press, 1936.
  • with NSB Gras: Casebook in American Business History. Irvington Publishers, 1939.
  • with Kenneth Wiggins Porter: Guide to Business History: Materials for the Study of American Business History and Suggestions for Their Use. 1948.
  • with Kenneth Wiggins Porter: History of Humble Oil and Refining Company. 1959.
  • with Ralph Willard Hidy and George Sweet Gibb: History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey): New Horizons, 1927–1950. Volume 3, Harper, 1971.

Honors

The St. Olaf College in Northfield (Minnesota) awarded her 1943 honorary doctorate .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Henrietta Melia Larson in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy: Henrietta M. Larson: An Appreciation . In: The Business History Review. Volume 36, No. 1, Business History Conference Issue Dedicated to Henrietta M. Larson (Spring, 1962), pp. 1, 3-10.
  3. ^ Literary Licensing, LLC 2012, ISBN 978-1-258-44492-1 .
  4. ^ Canner, 1964, ISBN 0-910324-04-2 .
  5. ↑ Harper and Brothers, New York 1959, p. 287. (books.google.de)
  6. ^ Arno Press, 1976, ISBN 0-405-08083-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Larson, Henrietta Melia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American college professor, editor, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrander , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1983
Place of death Northfield , Minnesota