Professor Leslie Hannah FBA

20th-century global business history
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Business and management

Current post

Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics

Past appointments

University of Tokyo Kojima Distinguished Professor

2004 - 2007

Cass Business School and Ashridge Management College Dean

1997 - 2003

Economic History Department, London School of Economics Founding Director Business History Unit and Professor

1978 - 1997

University of Cambridge Lecturer in History

1975 - 1978

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Fellow and Financial Tutor

1975 - 1978

University of Essex Lecturer in Economics

1973 - 1975

St John’s College, Oxford Junior Research Fellow

1969 - 1973

Publications

Inventing Retirement: The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain

Leslie Hannah - Published in 1986 by Cambridge University Press

Electricity Before Nationalisation: The Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948

Leslie Hannah - Published in 1979 by Johns Hopkins University Press

Concentration in Modern Industry: Theory Measurement and the UK Experience

Leslie Hannah and J. A. Kay - Published in 1977 by Macmillan

Twentieth Century Enterprise Forms: Japan in Comparative Perspective

Leslie Hannah and Makoto Kasuya - Published in 2016 by Enterprise and Society

The diffusion and impact of the corporation

James Foreman‐Peck and Leslie Hannah - Published in 2015 by Economic History Review

A Global Corporate Census: Publicly-listed and Close Corporations in 1910

Leslie Hannah - Published in 2015 by Economic History Review

Corporations in the US and Europe, 1790-1860

Leslie Hannah - Published in 2014 by Business History

Extreme Divorce: The Managerial Revolution in UK Companies before 1914

James Foreman‐Peck and Leslie Hannah - Published in 2012 by Economic History Review

Logistics, Market Size and Giant Plants in the Early Twentieth Century: A Global View

Leslie Hannah - Published in 2008 by Journal of Economic History

The Whig Fable of American Tobacco 1895-1913

Leslie Hannah - Published in 2006 by Journal of Economic History,

The American Miracle, 1875-1950, and After: a view in the European Mirror

Leslie Hannah - Published in 1995 by Business and Economic History

Entrepreneurs and the Social Sciences

Leslie Hannah - Published in 1984 by Economica

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Colin Mayer FBA

Financial economics; corporate finance, corporate governance, regulation, taxation, and international comparisons of financial systems; the role of the corporation in contemporary society

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Professor Peter Buckley FBA

International Business, The Theory of the Multinational Enterprise, Strategy of Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment with special reference to Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets (India and China)

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Professor Gordon Clark FBA

Geography Economic Geography Europe USA, Canada and/or Mexico

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