# Professor Richard Sylla comments on Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s 200 years in business

1 Faculty News June 17, 2016 ![The Baltimore Sun logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_045084.jpg?itok=v3-83W6W)>

Excerpt from [The Baltimore Sun](http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-bge-celebrates-bicentennial-20160617-story.html) -- "BGE joins a small club of companies to celebrate a bicentennial. The exact number of members is hard to pin down, but many of the companies that make it this far have a few things in common: They offer goods or services that never go out of style, and they are large enough to carry on after a top executive dies, said [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), an economic historian and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

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