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
Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO
- February 2021 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters
- 2021 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence
- 2021 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
American Business History: A Very Short Introduction
- 2020 |
- Book |
- Faculty Research
Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism
- 2020 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
Uber at a Crossroads (2017)
- September 2020 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968
- 2020 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Oriental Land Co., Ltd.—Tokyo Disney Resort
- April 2020 (Revised June 2020) |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
History-informed Strategy Research: The Promise of History and Historical Research Methods in Advancing Strategy Scholarship
- Article |
- Strategic Management Journal
The Origins of Bell Labs
- January 2020 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research