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George David Smith
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- Business History of the United States
- Global Perspectives on the History of Enterprise
- Financial History
- Market, Ethics, and Law
- Invention, Innovation, and Organization: Entrepren
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- Corporate Strategy & Structure
- Regulation
- Financial Market History
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Academic Background
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| PhD, History | Harvard | | MA, History | Harvard |
Biography
George David Smith is Clinical Professor of Economics and International Business at the NYU Stern School of Business where he also serves as the Academic Director of its Langone (part-time) Program. He began teaching at Stern in 1984, joined its economics faculty in 1988. He offers courses in U.S. Economic and Business History, Global Perspectives on Enterprise Systems, Markets, Ethics and Law, and Entrepreneurial Leadership. He has been a faculty member of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and is a research associate of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies. He has been twice named a Glucksman Faculty Fellow. In 2009 he was voted the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Executive Programs.
Professor Smith holds a Ph.D. in from Harvard University, where he taught from 1972-78. He was project manager for telecommunications industry antitrust studies at the Cambridge Research Institute from 1979-1982. In 1982 he co-founded The Winthrop Group, Inc., located today in Cambridge, MA, New York, and the UK. He has consulted to such firms as ALCOA, AT&T, Citigroup, Comcast Corp., Cotton Incorporated, Dillon, Read, Inc., Dover Corporation, General Electric Company, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Procter & Gamble, and Shell Oil Company, and Skadden Arps..
Some of his publications include:
“The Diamond of Sustainable Growth: A Historical Framework for the Study of Political Economy and Economic Development”, forthcoming.
A Concise History of Wall Street, with Richard Sylla. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“The Public Corporation and Private Property turns 75,” Financial History, Fall 2007.
Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America, with Robert Wright, New York University Press, 2004.
Cotton’s Renaissance, with Timothy Jacobson. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Wisdom from the Robber Barons, with Frederick Dalzell, Perseus Books, 2000.
“Leveraged Management Buyouts at KKR,” with George Baker, in Private Equity. (Euromoney/Institutional Investor, 2000).
The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value, with George P. Baker. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
“The Rise and Transformation of the American Corporation,” in The Corporation Today, ed. Karl Kaysen. Oxford University Press, 1996.
The Transformation of Financial Capitalism, with R. Sylla. Blackwell, 1993.
From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Anatomy of a Business Strategy: Bell, Western Electric and the Origins of the American Telephone Industry. John Hopkins University Press, 1985. (co-winner, Best Book on Business, American Publishers Association, Scholarly Division.
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