Professor Sicilia's first
book -- The Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure, with Robert
Sobel (Houghton-Mifflin, 1986) -- tells the stories of three dozen
leading U.S. entrepreneurs across a range of industries. The two
in-depth corporate histories that he published with Harvard Business
School Press -- Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a
Chemical Company (1990), with Davis Dyer; and The Engine That
Could: Seventy Five Years of Values-Drives Change at Cummins Engine
Company (1997), with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank -- explore the inner
workings of two technology intensive multinationals and the broader
trends they exemplified in postwar business. In The Greenspan
Effect: Words that Move the World's Markets (McGraw-Hill, 2000) --
voted a Library Journal Best Business Book of the Year -- Sicilia and
Cruikshank dissect the influence of the powerful Fed Chairman's public
pronouncements on investor behavior.
Professor Sicilia's
co-edited volumes are Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia, eds., Constructing
Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture
(Oxford University Press, 2004) -- which explores social, cultural, and
political dimensions of nineteenth and twentieth century U.S.
corporations -- and Robert Sobel and David B. Sicilia, eds., The
United States Executive Branch: A Biographical Directory of Heads of
State and Cabinet Officials (Greenwood Press, 2003).
David Sicilia has received grants and fellowships from the Danish Fulbright Commission, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memorial Foundation of Japan, among others. Since 1980 he has consulted -- independently and through The Cruikshank Company, Inc. and The Winthrop Group, Inc. -- for a variety of private and public institutions that seek to apply historical analysis to contemporary issues. Consulted frequently by local, national, and international print and broadcast media, Professor Sicilia has appeared on CNBC, CNN Financial News, Bloomberg Financial Television, National Public Radio, TV-1 in France, DR-1 Danish Public Television, and NHK Television Japan.
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