Business History
Business History
Harvard Business School has a long tradition of investing in business history, and of asserting its central role in management education. In 1927, the School created the first endowed professorship in the field. It also founded the field’s first journal, the Business History Review. Since the work of Joseph Schumpeter at Harvard's Center for Entrepreneurial History in the 1940s, the School has taken an interdisciplinary and global approach to understanding business history. Today business historians at the School investigate a broad range of themes, including entrepreneurship, innovation, globalization, and environmental sustainability.
Business History Initiative
The Business History Initiative seeks to facilitate learning from the past through innovative research and course development, employing global and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Business HistoryRecent Publications
ZEISS: Commercializing Science
- July 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Oral History and Business History in Emerging Markets
- June 2024 |
- Article |
- Investigaciones de historia económica
Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors
- May 2024 (Revised September 2024) |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Doing Business in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- March 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Doing Business in São Paulo, Brazil
- March 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective
- 2024 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism
- Fall 2023 |
- Article |
- Business History Review
(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly
- Summer 2023 |
- Article |
- Business History Review
LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry
- 2023 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Deep Responsibility and Irresponsibility in the Beauty Industry
- July 2023 |
- Article |
- Entreprises et histoire