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
Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s
- 2022 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?
- April 2022 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Capitalism and the Environment
- 2022 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
Crises and International Business
- 2022 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?
- February 2022 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism
- 2022 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
Business Investment in Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s
- Article |
- Business History
K.C. Li: The Tungsten King
- July 2021 (Revised January 2022) |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016
- Summer 2021 |
- Article |
- Business History Review
The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s
- 2021 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research