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.
- 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...
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- 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,...
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- March 2023
- Teaching Material
Stalin’s Capitalists: American Business and Soviet Industrialization
By: Jeremy Friedman
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- 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.
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- 18 Feb 2023
- News
Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership"
Re: Geoffrey Jones
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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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