CEM hosts international conferences in-person and online. Our events in Boston, Mumbai, and Santiago have attracted prominent scholars, archivists, and practitioners in the respective regions.
- 18-19 MAR 2024
- Boston, MA
Oral History and Business in the Global South
This two-day conference, organized by Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna, focused on the
intersection of oral history, business, and the Global South, offering a unique space
for interdisciplinary discussions.
- 15 DEC 2023
- Zoom
Using Oral History in Research
This conference considered the ways oral history including the interviews undertaken
by the Creating Emerging Markets project can be used in research. The speakers were
Susie Pak (St. John’s), Valeria Giacomin (Bocconi) and Sudev Sheth (Lauder Institute,
University of Pennsylvania).
- 6 FEB 2023
- Zoom
Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies
At this online conference, speakers shared their experiences using CEM transcripts
and video materials for teaching in different institutional contexts in Europe, India,
Latin America and the United States.
- 28 May 2019
- Santiago, Chile
Business and Education
This one-day workshop organized by Geoffrey Jones and Richard Elmore and Daniel Gray
Wilson from Harvard Graduate School of Education brought together leading business
practitioners to discuss the role of business in the provision of education in Chile.
Hosted at the Santiago office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
the findings of the CEM project provided a global framework to discuss the present
and future role of business philanthropy in Chile, and the type of education which
should be supported.
- 09-10 MAY 2019
- Boston, MA
Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism
This one-day workshop brought together scholars in the fields of history, anthropology,
economics, and management to explore unconventional techniques, sources, and topics
that are at the forefront of current historical research on the historical evolution
of capitalism. Speakers identified the pressing need to generate new repositories
of primary data in the current age of digital media and audio-visual technologies.
A Panel was devoted to showing how the CEM database was generating new insights into
entrepreneurship, economic growth, and the impact of market liberalizations across
Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
- 13-14 FEB 2017
- Mumbai, India
Creating Emerging Markets: Lessons from History
The Harvard Business School Creating Emerging Markets project (CEM), in collaboration
with the HBS India Research Center (IRC), hosted a two-day conference titled, “Creating
Emerging Markets: Lessons from History” on February 13-14 in Mumbai.
- 15 JUL 2016
- Santiago, Chile
Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History: Oral History & Digital Resources
The Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History: Oral History and Digital
Resources conference was held in Santiago, Chile, on July 15, 2016. The full-day event
was focused on how the new materials generated by the Creating Emerging Markets project
could transform research and teaching in management studies and business history in
Latin America.
- 14 JUL 2016
- Mumbai, India
Oral History, Business History, and Business Archives in India
This one-day conference held at the Harvard Business School India Research Center
in Mumbai brought together business historians, business archivists, and business
practitioners to discuss the role of oral history in the growth of business history
in India.
- OCT 30 2015
- Boston, MA
The Business History of India & South Asia: Recent Trends in Research
This one-day conference brought together leading scholars from Asia, Europe, and the
United States to discuss the latest research on the evolution of business in South
Asia.