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Guide to MS-207: the Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr. Papers: Dan Gilbert's _______________________________________________________________________ Guide to MS-207: The Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr. Papers: Dan Gilbert’s Bookshelf Amy Lucadamo March 2017 MS-207 – The Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr. Papers: Dan Gilbert’s Bookshelf (6 boxes, 5.5 cubic feet) Location: Special Collections, Cage Inclusive Dates: 1964-2013 (including the publication date of books) Bulk Dates: Processed by: Amy Lucadamo, College Archivist March 2017 Provenance These books and papers were donated to Special Collections and College Archives upon Gilbert’s retirement in 2014. Additional volumes on economics, ethics, etc. were given to Musselman Library’s circulating collection. The intention of Professor Gilbert was to create an archival collection that reflected the development of his courses and their liberal arts breadth. Biographical Note Professor Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr. began teaching at Gettysburg College in 1999 when he left the Management Department at Bucknell University. Upon becoming the first David M. LeVan Professor of Ethics and Management at Gettysburg, Gilbert taught courses on management and ethics, but also used creative coursework with themes like big ideas of the 1950s, water systems in the American West, and baseball to illustrate the social and legal responsibilities of organizations. Gilbert earned a B.A. from Dickinson College in 1971, an M.B.A. from Lehigh University in 1978, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1987. He gained executive experience at NCR Corporation in Ohio, Minnesota, and Canada before settling into a career in higher education. While at Gettysburg College, Gilbert served on many faculty committees, as well as the Middle States Reaccreditation Committee and a Task Force on Academic Advising and Mentoring. He was the winner of the inaugural Dr. Robert E. Dutton, Class of 1946, Memorial Mentorship Award. Gilbert retired in 2014 and moved to Southern California with his family. Scope and Content Notes The Daniel R. Gilbert Papers, aka Dan Gilbert’s Bookshelf, is a collection designed by Prof. Gilbert with the intention of documenting the development of his signature Organization and Management Studies (OMS) courses. Because book selection is crucial to the design of his courses, Gilbert requested that Special Collections and College Archives retain integral texts with this manuscript collection. The texts in combination with course syllabi and assignments encapsulate the course experience for Gilbert’s classes. This collection does not contain personal research conducted by Gilbert for his many publications. Hard copies of many of Gilbert’s publications are located in Glibert’s Vertical File in Special Collections and College Archives. His books are available through Musselman Library. Subjects Gettysburg College-FYS Economics Management OMS Water Systems Baseball Business Ethics Series Description This collection is divided into two Series, which are arranged alphabetically by course title: Series 1: Teaching Papers, Series 2: Dan Gilbert’s Bookshelf. Box List Box 1 Finding aid Series 1: Teaching Papers Business, Ethics, and Civil Life (MGT/OMS 406) – Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Spring/Fall 2010-2013 Ethics and the Playing Fields of Competition (MGT 407/MGT 430/OMS 397) – Fall 2004- 2007, Spring 2011, Fall 2011-2012 Four Years, Far Away (FYS 174) – Fall 2005-2007, 2009-2011 Justice and the Contested Corporation (IDS 224) – Spring 2007-2008, 2010-2013 Management Seminar [Water] (MGT 422) – Spring 2005-2007 Organizational Ethics (MGT 360) – Fall 2004, Spring/Fall 2005 & 2006 Organizations and Society (MGT 111) – Fall 2004 Box 2 Series 2: Dan Gilbert’s Bookshelf IDS 224: Justice and The Contested Corporation - Selections Bad Business, 1992, Nancy Goldstone Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre, 1991, Zeese Papanikolas Classics In Management, 1960, Harwood F. Merril, ed. Crisis in Bethlehem, 1986, John Strohmeyer Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence, 1999, Katherine S. Newman Good Faith, 2003, Jane Smiley Growing Up in Coal Country, 1996, Susan Campbell Bartoletti Hardcastle, 1992, John Yount In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden, 2001, Kathleen Cambor Life Support, 1997, Suzanne Gordon Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment, 1992, W. Edward Stead and Jean Garner Stead My Years with General Motors, 1972, Alfred P. Sloan Out of This Furnace, 1976, Thomas Bell Strikebreaking& Intimidation, 2002, Stephen H. Norwood The Functions of the Executive, 1982, Chester I. Barnard The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1955, Sloan Wilson The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency, 1997, Robert Kanigel The Soul of a New Machine, 2000, Tracy Kidder What Management Is: How it works and why it's everyone's business, 2002, Joan Magretta Where the Law Ends: The Social Control of Corporate Behavior, 1975, Christopher D. Stone Box 3 OMS 397: Ethics and Playing Fields of Competition - Selections A Civil War: Army v.s Navy, 1997, John Feinstein A General Theory of Competition: Resources, Competencies, Productivity, Economic Growth, 2000, Shelby D. Hunt A March To Madness: the view from the floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference, 1998, John Feinstein A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports, 2006, Brad Snyder AIDS and Its Metaphors, 1989, Susan Sontag At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War, 1994, Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott Barney Polan's Game, 1998, Charley Rosen Cold War: The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972, 1996, Roy Macskimming Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, 1985, Michael E. Porter Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, 1980, Michael E. Porter Co-opetition, 1996, Adam M. Brandedburger and Barry J. Nalebuff Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada, 1994, Ken Dryden and Roy MacGregor Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina, 2001, Pamela Grundy Modern Competitive Analysis, 2nd ed., 1994, Sharon M. Oster The Antitrust Casebook: Milestones in Regulation, 1982, William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga The Death of Competition: Leadership Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems, 1997, James F. Moore The Last Best League, 2004, Jim Collins The Reckoning, 1986, David Halberstam The Tortilla Curtain, 1995, T.C. Boyle Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, 1995, Christina Hoff Sommers Box 4 MGT 422/OMS 406 Water & Civil Society American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, 2007, Ted Steinberg Atlas of Westward Expansion, 1995, Alan Wexler Bad Land: An American Romance, 1996, Jonathan Ruban Basin and Range, 1981, John McPhee Beaver Men, 1964, Mari Sandoz Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, 2005, Douglas Flamming Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather, 1996, david Laskin Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, 2002, William McDonough & Michael Braungart Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, 1993, Kathleen Morris Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, 1968, Edward Abby Ecotopia, 1990, Ernest Callenbach Field Guide to California Agriculture, CA Natural History Guides, No. 98, 2010, Paul F. Starrs & Peter Goin Going Over East: Reflections of a Rancher Woman, 1987, Linda Hasselstorm Grassland, 1995, Richard Manning Great Plains, 1989, Ian Fraizer Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, 1993, David M. Bragge Industrial Cowboys: Miller and Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 2005, David Igler Into the West: The Story of Its People, 1999, Walter Nugent Land of the Burnt Thigh, 1986, Edith Eudora Kohl Measuring America, 2002, Andro Linklater My Antonia, 1988 Houghton Mifflin, Willa Cather National Geographic Magazine, 2012 August (2 copies) National Geographic magazine: 2007 Oct, Nov; 2008 Jan, Feb; 2010 Apr; 2012 Dec National Geographic Special Edition: Water: the Power, Promise, and Turmoil of North America's Fresh Water NEBRASKAland Magazine Weather and Climate of Nebraska, Vol. 74, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1996 O Pioneers! 1992 Vintage Classics & 1989 Penguin, Willa Cather Old Jules, 1985, Mari Sandoz Rifle, Colorado 2012-2013 Visitor's Guide, Chamber of Commerce Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, 1985, Donald Worster Silent Spring, 1962, Rachel Carson The Atlas of North American Exploration, 1992, William H. Goetzmann & Glyndwr Williams The Buffalo Commons, 1998, Richard S. Wheeler The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball, 2004, Kevin Nelson The Grapes of Wrath, 1992 Penguin, John Steinbeck The Great Plains, 1981, Walter Prescott Webb The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians, 1964, Ralph K. Andrist The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth, 1999, Blake Gumprecht The Mapping Farm, 1995 soft cover & 1996 signed hard cover, John Hildebrand The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2006, Michael Pollan The Way to the West, 1997, Elliot West The Worst Hard Time, 2006, Timothy Egan Where the Buffalo Roam, 1992, Ann Matthews Box 5 MGT 422/OMS 406 Water & Civil Society continued Blue Gold, 2002, Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado, 2004, William Blomquist, Edella Schlager, Tanya Heikkila Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind, 2011, Brian Fagan Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem, 2011, Daniel Schneider Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land (A
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