
Grace Ballor is an international business and economic historian and the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History. Her research examines the historical intersections of global capitalism and European integration. Before joining HBS, she earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and held joint positions as Max Weber Fellow in History and Civilization at the European University Institute and Research Fellow in International History at the Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID). Among other projects on trade relations and economic governance, she is currently at work on a monograph reconstructing the history of the Single European Market.
- Journal Articles
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- Ballor, Grace. "Five Key Themes for Reforming the EU as Elections Approach." World Economic Forum (blog) (May 13, 2019). View Details
- Ballor, Grace A. "Du « défi américain » à l’expansion européenne: Les relations économiques transatlantiques des années cinquante aux années soixante-dix." Relations internationales 180, no. 4 (Fall 2019): 43–57. View Details
- Ballor, Grace A., and Aydin B. Yildirim. "Multinational Firms and the Politics of International Trade in Multidisciplinary Perspective." Special Issue on Multinational Corporations and the Politics of International Trade. Business and Politics 22, no. 4 (December 2020): 573–586. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Jones, Geoffrey, and Grace Ballor. "Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 821-066, January 2021. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Grace Ballor, and Adrian Brown. "Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany." Harvard Business School Case 807-133, June 2007. (Revised January 2021.) View Details
- Teaching
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Dr. Ballor has taught undergraduate, masters, and doctoral courses on a wide range of subjects including Modern Europe, Neoliberalism and Globalization, European Integration and the European Union.