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Faculty & Research

Faculty & Research

Harvard Business School faculty members have made notable contributions to the history of business. Faculty research is diverse, based in several of the School’s units, and reflects disciplinary backgrounds in economics, history, sociology, strategy, and political science.
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  • 2023
  • Book

Deeply Responsible Business.: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership

By: Geoffrey Jones
Corporate social responsibility has entered the mainstream, but what does it take to run a successful purpose-driven business? This book examines leaders who put values alongside profits to showcase the challenges and upside of deeply responsible business. Should...
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Rule by Market: The Chinese State in Factor Markets

By: Meg Rithmire
Political economy on China and beyond generally has been premised on a trade-off between state and market power. In the context of China’s reforms, markets and market mechanisms were hypothesized to replace state power in allocating important economic resources. Yet,...
  • March 2023
  • Teaching Material

Stalin’s Capitalists: American Business and Soviet Industrialization

By: Jeremy Friedman
  • March 2023
  • Teaching Material

Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization

By: Jeremy Friedman
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-065.
  • 18 Feb 2023
  • News

Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership"

Re: Geoffrey Jones
  • 17 Feb 2023
  • News

Now at Harvard Business School: The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library has opened a new exhibition that focuses on the history of one of the most infamous financial crashes. “South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash” was organized by Baker Library Special Collections
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • News

A Higher Degree of Responsibility

By: Geoffrey Jones
  • February 2023
  • Teaching Material

The Dutch East India Company (VOC)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
Teaching Note for HBS Case No.723-002.
  • February 2023
  • Teaching Material

Korea: The Miracle on the Han River

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Forest Reinhardt
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-019.
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Nestlé’s KitKat Diplomacy: Neutrality vs. Shared Value

Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, and multinational companies began pulling out of Russia, in response. At Switzerland-based Nestlé, chief executive Mark Schneider had a difficult decision to make. Nestlé had a long tradition of neutrality that enabled it to...
  • January 2023
  • Review of Economic Studies

Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized...
  • 2022
  • Rivista storica italiana

Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300-1600

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This essay uses the concept of 'copynorms', social norms about copying expressive works that can be distinct from legal norms about the same, in order to understand the meaning of intellectual property among Roman law and canon law jurists from the fourteenth through...
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