Chris Kobrak (January 21, 1950–January 8, 2017): A Tribute

At Sterling Drug, Chris's initial position was as a financial analyst in its consumer product division, looking at operating results and investments, along with pricing strategies. Joe Martin, who for a number of years had been seeking to find the right person in Canadian business history for a new opening at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, invited Chris to teach in Toronto, first on a visiting basis in 2012, with the high probability that he would be appointed on a regular basis after he retired from ESCP Europe. [...]he embarked with Joe Martin on writing a book comparing the history of banks and bank regulation in Canada and the United States.10In fall 2016, Chris had the regular appointment at the University of Toronto and was looking forward to a happy future there. Mon., Jan. 2, 2017, 11.25 am Miami time As soon as Joe [Martin] and I get the book back to University of Toronto and I get finished with the Hagley books [for the Hagley book prize], I have promised an article to the Canadian History Review on the history of Canadian business history and a chapter for a compendium being put together on the work of the finance area of Rotman, my bit finance and history obviously. Kobrak and Oesterle, "Nationalism and Internationalism in Corporate Governance"; Fear and Kobrak, "Corporate Governance in America and Germany"; Kobrak and Wüstenhagen, "International Investment and Nazi Politics"; Kobrak and Schneider, "Varieties of Business History"; Brean and Kobrak, "Corporate Governance in the 21st Century"; Kobrak and Troege, "From Basel to Bailouts."