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April 3, 2017
Gerardo Con Diaz (Ph.D., 2016) won the Herman E. Krooss Prize for the best dissertation in business history awarded by the Business History Conference in Denver, CO this weekend at its annual meeting. The award honors the late Herman E. Krooss, professor of economics and chairman of the department of economics at the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University and consists of a plaque and $500.