Courses

Since 1927, Harvard Business School has been a pioneer in teaching business history.

The Business History Initiative continues this tradition and seeks to facilitate and promote course development in business history globally. We provide a detailed overview of HBS’s own history courses and a guide to using the case method to teach history. We have also collected syllabi from a range of history courses taught worldwide on the subjects of business, finance, innovation, and capitalism.

Our Curriculum →

Today around half of the 900 students in the second year of the Harvard MBA take one or more of the business history electives.

Teaching Resources →

Resources, including statistical charts and an international directory of syllabi, for teaching history in business schools and other graduate institutions as well as in colleges.