Seminars & International Programs

Business History Seminar, Fall 2009

This fall the Business History Seminar will have the theme of "Varieties of Capitalism: A Business History Perspective." The seminar will be held from 3:30 to 5:00, in Baker Library 101, on the following Mondays:

Oct. 19, David Soskice, Duke University, "Two Paths to Democracy" (A paper co-authored with Torben Iversen)

Oct. 26, William Lazonick, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, "The New Economy Business Model and the Crisis of US Capitalism"

Nov. 2, R. Bin Wong, UCLA, "East Asian Political Economies of Capitalism"

Nov. 9, Martin Iversen, Copenhagen Business School, "Scandinavian Capitalism: Challenges and Opportunities of the Varieties of Capitalism Model"

Nov. 16, Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University, "Electoral Systems and the Origins of Varieties of Coordination"

The Business History Seminar is organized by Walter Friedman, Geoffrey Jones, and Gunnar Trumbull.

Workshop: "New Linkages: Infrastructure and Entrepreneurship in Republican and Contemporary China"

To be held Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00am - 5:00 pm.

Two panels with papers by historians, political scientists, and economic historians on transportation, communications and investment institutions/networks before and after 1949 will provide the historical context for assessing China's ongoing infrastructure development.

Organizers: Elisabeth Köll and Anne Reinhardt. Presenters: Li Dan (Fudan University, Shanghai); Eric Harwit (University of Hawi'i); Zhao Minghua (University of Greenwhich, U.K.); Anne Reinhardt (Williams College); Elisabeth Köll (Harvard Business School); Regina Abrami (Harvard Business School).

Location: CGIS South, Concourse Level, S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138. Open to interested scholars. For more information, please contact Elisabeth Köll at ekoll@hbs.edu.