WINTHROP PROFESSIONALS

Brian Bleich returned to Winthrop in December 2010 to process and create EAD finding aids for a selected group of high priority institutional papers at Ford Foundation. Previously, Mr. Bleich worked on Winthrop projects for Atlantic Philanthropies, an international not-for-profit organization, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Bleich holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a J.D. Degree from St. John's University School of Law. He is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the Mid-Atlantic Archives Conference.
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Frederick A. B. Dalzell, a senior consultant with The Winthrop Group, has served clients in financial services, consumer goods, manufacturing, and education. Formerly a research associate at Harvard Business School, he has taught history at Harvard University and Williams College and developed and scripted an award-winning NEH-funded web site project with Mystic Seaport on the Amistad Revolt. He has authored several books for Winthrop, including Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry and Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble (with Davis Dyer and Rowena Olegario). His most recent book is A Joyous Adventure: Sixty Years at St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's. Mr. Dalzell holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Back to Top

Davis Dyer is a co-founder and Director of Winthrop Group and a group leader with Monitor, a global professional services firm. He is an expert on the evolution of large 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). A former associate editor of Harvard Business Review, Dyer writes, teaches, and consults widely on strategic management.
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Linda Edgerly, a founding partner and currently Managing Director of The Winthrop Group, is Director of Winthrop's Information and Archival Services Division. She is among the most experienced consultants in business and organizational archives in the United States. Her clients include The American Academy in Rome, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Blass Ltd., The Boeing Company, Ford Motor Company, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Kraft Foods, Macy's, MCA/Universal Pictures, New York City Ballet, the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations), Pendleton Woolen Mills, USA TODAY, Weyerhaeuser Company, and the Whitney Museum. Ms. Edgerly has chaired the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists, of which she is also a Fellow, and is the author of "The Present and Future of Corporate Archives" in Business and Economic History.
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Margaret Graham is a founding partner of The Winthrop Group and is a leading scholar of business research and innovation. Among her books are RCA and the VideoDisc: The Business of Research, R&D for Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa (with Bettye H. Pruitt), and most recently, Corning and the Craft of Innovation (with Alec T. Schuldiner). Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School and Boston University School of Management, she currently is a member of the Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal. She has served also as Manager of Research Operations and Organizational Learning at Xerox's advanced research center in Palo Alto. Ms. Graham teaches and consults in the areas of strategy and innovation, organizational learning, and the management of intellectual assets.
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Daniel Gross, an alumnus of The Winthrop Group, is an accomplished financial journalist and editor. Since 2010, he has been the economics editor, columnist, and co-host of the Daily Ticker at Yahoo! Finance. Before joining Yahoo!, he was senior editor and columnist at Newsweek and a columnist at Slate magazine. He has written for The New Republic and Bloomberg Business News and is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, New York, CFO, and Crain's New York Business. A popular historian, he is the author of Forbes' Greatest Business Stories of All Time.
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Richard Hobbs brings to clients in the Pacific Northwest more than twenty years of experience as an archivist, historian, records manager, and writer. He joined Winthrop Group in 2008 and is based in Seattle. He has created digital archives and provided archives and records management services to businesses, state and local governments, the University of Washington, as well as the Government of Bahrain. Hobbs co-authored Frontier Bank: The First 25 Years, 1978-2003, two books on historic bridges as well as a family biography The Cayton Legacy: An African American Family. The web site he prepared for the Washington State Department of Transportation on the history of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge won awards in 2004 and 2005. In addition to a certificate in Archives and Records Administration from Western Washington University, Hobbs holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington.
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Timothy C. Jacobson, a senior consultant with The Winthrop Group, has more than 25 years of experience as an author and editor, with expertise in medicine, healthcare, and education. His books include Making Medical Doctors; A Historical Guide to the United States; An American Journey by Rail; Pitney Bowes at Seventy-Five; Becton Dickinson: The First 100 Years; TRW 1901-2001: A Tradition of Innovation, and most recently, Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation, and most recently, Charity and Merit: Trinity School at 300. Before joining Winthrop, Mr. Jacobson 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 holds a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University.
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Lois Kauffman 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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Sylvia Kollar, a graduate of Queens College, City University of New York with an MLS and Archives Certificate, began work at Winthrop in 2005 as part of the processing team for the Rudolph W. Giuliani Mayoral Papers Project. Since then, Sylvia has organized and managed the archival collections of The Paul Taylor Dance Company, Bill Blass, Ltd., Trinity School, and St. Bernard's School. More recently, she surveyed the records of the American Stock Exchange and developed recommendations for establishing the Amex Archives Collection.
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John Landry, a senior consultant with The Winthrop Group, has more than 15 years of experience as a historian, journalist, and editor. He was formerly the business development editor at Harvard Business Review, where he built up the magazine's worldwide network of licensed translated editions. He also edited numerous books, wrote or edited scores of articles and blog posts, and worked closely with leading authors to select and develop their ideas for publication. He holds a Ph.D. in economic history from Brown University, and is the author of From the Rivers: The Origins and Growth of the New England Electric System (with Jeffrey Cruikshank).
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Isabelle Lescent-Giles, a senior consultant with The Winthrop Group, is Associate Professor of International Business, College of Business, San Jose State University. On leave of absence from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, where she is a senior lecturer in economics, 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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Marguerite Moran devotes her time to archives' projects for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI, including processing archival records, responding to requests for information and assisting with special projects. A recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ms. Moran received a M.A. in Library and Information Studies with a Specialization in Archives and Records Management in 2006. While in graduate school, she worked with the Wisconsin Historical Society's McCormick - International Harvester Collection as a reference assistant. She also served as coordinator of the Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists. Ms. Moran received a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Oberlin College in 1996 and worked in both public and law libraries before pursuing a graduate degree in Library and Information Studies.
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Daniel Penrice, a Winthrop consultant, has more than 15 years of experience as a writer and editor for consulting firms such as Accenture, Arthur D. Little, Boston Consulting Group, and PRTM as well as The Winthrop Group. He has published articles in Harvard Business Review and several Harvard Business School publications. He has also collaborated with senior leaders on two recent books: Peter A. Brooke's A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital and Private Equity, and Rakesh Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.
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Laurie C. Peterson, a Senior Archives Consultant based in Florida, holds an M.A. and an M.L.S. from Case Western Reserve University. Her varied experience in corporate, family, foundation, and government agency archives has benefited Winthrop clients such as USA TODAY, Darden Restaurants, Hixon Properties, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Defense Systems Management College of the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition to working with archives, she conducts oral history interviews.
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Angelique Richardson is Winthrop's Project Archivist at Kraft Foods Corporate Archives in Morton Grove, IL. She holds an MSI in Archives and Records Management from the University of Michigan's School of Information and before joining Winthrop she undertook internships at Entertainment Weekly Magazine in Ann Arbor, MI and the Coca-Cola Company Archives in Atlanta, GA. A member of the Society of American Archivists and the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC), Angelique is one of MAC's bloggers for its Spring 2010 meeting. Her other activities have included volunteering at the Mascoutah (IL) Public Library and the Library of Congress, and working as a research assistant at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials, Inc. She also has a lifetime membership in the Girl Scouts of the USA.
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John Seaman is a partner of The Winthrop Group, where he also manages the History division. He has consulted for Winthrop clients in law, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, management consulting, financial services, education, and philanthropy. Before joining Winthrop, he spent more than 15 years in management and technology consulting, with a six-year assignment in London. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Formerly an adjunct professor of history at Fordham University, he has authored or co-authored several books and articles, including the official history of a global management consulting firm and a biography of the British politician and diplomat James Bryce, entitled A Citizen of the World. Currently, he is at work on a biography of the banker and financier Edmond J. Safra.
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Deborah Shea, a Senior Consultant, specializes in the evaluation and implementation of archival programs and the development of computerized finding aids. In addition, she has undertaken benchmark assessments for clients seeking information about the elements of successful archives programs. She has worked with such diverse clients as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Boeing Company, Burson-Marsteller, CARE, Inc., Central Synagogue, the Florida Marlins, Lazard Freres & Co., Merrill Lynch, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the City of Seattle, Otis Elevator Company, Sarah Lawrence College, the United States Tennis Association, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and the Waldorf-Astoria. Ms. Shea is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the New England Archivists and is certified by the Academy of Certified Archivists.
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David B. Sicilia is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in U.S. business, technology, and economic history, his research and teaching focus on the ways that entrepreneurs and institutions marshal technology and attempt to shape public opinion for strategic advantage. He is co-author or co- editor of six books, including Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company (with Davis Dyer). Sicilia has appeared on CNBC, CNN Financial News, Bloomberg Financial Television, National Public Radio, DR-1 Danish Public Television, TV1 Paris, and NHK Television Japan.
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George David Smith, a founding director of the Winthrop Group, is Clinical Professor of Economics and International Business at New York University's Stern School of Business. He teaches and consults on issues in corporate strategy, organization, technology, and international business history and 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 he has twice been named a Glucksman Faculty Fellow; and The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value (with George Baker). His most recent book is Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America (with Robert E. Wright).
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Christian Stadler, a Winthrop consultant, is a Lecturer in Strategy at the University of Bath School of Management. 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. He holds a Ph.D. in business history from the University of Innsbruck.
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Janine St. Germain came to Winthrop in 2004 to help launch Winthrop+St.Germain, a specialized cataloging and archives service for collectors, established artists, families, and estates. She has worked with the private collections of John Winthrop, with artists including Christopher Knowles and Robert Kushner, and with the estate of sculptor Richard Lippold. With Deborah Shea, she also worked on Winthrop's archival records reconnaissance for the New York Artist Workspace Consortium. Previously, Ms. St. Germain served as Archivist for the Byrd Hoffman Foundation/Robert Wilson Archives and Brooklyn's Prospect Park Alliance. She is a member of ArtTable, the Society of American Archivists, the American Association of Museums, and the Archives of American Art.
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