Faculty

The business history group is the largest in the United States and among the largest in the world. The historians work in two of the School's departments, Entrepreneurial Management; and Business, Government and the International Economy.

The historians at HBS have an outstanding record of publication. Many books draw on the unmatched resources of Baker Library. Recent works include Thomas K. McCraw's Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (2007), Geoffrey Jones's Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition (2005), Richard Tedlow's Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American (2006), Walter Friedman's Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (2004), David Moss's When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (2002), and Nancy F. Koehn's Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell (2001).

The faculty at Harvard has long been prominent in the worldwide scholarly community of business historians. Geoffrey Jones, Thomas McCraw, and Richard Vietor have all served as presidents of the Business History Conference. The group has a shared vision of the importance of international and comparative perspectives in research and teaching.

Visiting Scholars

Felipe Tamega Fernandes, who received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, is the 2009-2010 Harvard-Newcomen Fellow. Veronique Pouillard, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Brussels, was the 2008-2009 Harvard-Newcomen Fellow.

The Chandler International Visiting Scholarship recipient for 2009 is Maria Ines Barbero of Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires. The 2008 Chandler Scholars were James H. Bamberg, who headed the BP History Project at Cambridge University, and Gelina Harlaftis, an associate professor at Ionian University.

Previous recipients of the Chandler International scholarship include, in 2007, Hans Sjögren, of Linköping University, and Maria Eugénia Mata, of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In 2006, Richard Whittington, from Oxford's Said Business School, and Hartmut Berghoff, of the University of Göttingen, visited HBS as fellows, and, in 2005, the scholarship was awarded to professors Per Hansen, of Copenhagen Business School, and Ludovic Cailluet, of the Graduate School of Management of Toulouse Social Sciences University.