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1945Joseph Schumpeter speaking on entrepreneurship
Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
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1908The Wright Brothers promote their innovation
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1947Edwin Land invents instant camera
Polaroid collection held at Baker Library's Historical Collection
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1989Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Argentinian businesswoman and philanthropist
Latin American Business History Resources and Research
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1933President Roosevelt signs Glass-Steagall bank reform legislation
David Moss, "Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas"
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2001Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop and environmentalist
Geoffrey Jones, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
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1912Funding Brazilian Railroads
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1961A new age of credit cards
Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano, "A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance"
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1928Yasujiro Niwa, pioneer of an early form of television
Tom Nicholas, "Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan"
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1938Celebrating Mexican expropriation of foreign oil companies
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Business history provides a unique resource to enable educators, practitioners, and policymakers to learn from the past through rich and nuanced evidence on the key issues faced by the world today. Since the work of Joseph Schumpeter and the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History in the 1940s, Harvard has taken an interdisciplinary and global approach to understanding business history.
BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW
BHR is a top-tier academic journal that began publication in 1926. Since 2011, it has been distributed by Cambridge University Press.
IN LATEST ISSUE
"Green Innovation Systems in Swedish Industry, 1960–1989"
By Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
Winter 2011
BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
From its inception, Baker Library has collected rare and unique materials that focus on the evolution of business and industry.
FEATURED EXHIBIT
The Heard papers, one of the largest collections of business records relating to the nineteenth-century China trade, present a look into momentous events of Sino-Western relations and the day-to-day activities of American traders in the treaty ports.
A Chronicle of the China Trade
SEMINARS & CONFERENCES
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June 28, 2012
Business History: Incorporating New Research into Course Development
