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  • 2018
  • Introduction

Introduction: History and Political Economy

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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  • 2021
  • Chapter

International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters

By: Geoffrey Jones and Teresa da Silva Lopes
This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of international business over the long-run as well as the strategies of MNEs. It highlights how strategies became more complex over time with MNEs moving from being coordinators of resources and managers of... View Details
Keywords: Multinational; International Business; Internalization; Globalization; Theory; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America
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  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

While many history departments of American universities prefer to keep business as a separate discipline, HBS entrepreneurship professor Geoffrey Jones encourages the examination of history as a way to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • December 2016
  • Article

Impact Investing: A Brief History

By: Brian Trelstad
Over the last decade, impact investing has become an increasingly-discussed topic in the realms of both business and public policy. Impact investors are motived by a desire to advance social or environmental goals and an intuition that pursuing two goals at once -... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Investment; Ethics; Strategy
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  • 31 Oct 2018
  • News

Building on History

History and Culture. This museum documents the story of a country that adopted a set of values in the 18th century that it lived up to over the next 200 years, slowly but consistently, and continues to follow in a very dramatic and... View Details
  • Web

Courses - Business History

Courses Since 1927, Harvard Business School has been a pioneer in teaching business history. The Business History Initiative continues this tradition and seeks to facilitate and promote course development in business View Details
  • Article

Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History

By: Teresa da Silva Lopes, Mark Casson and Geoffrey Jones
This article engages in a methodological experiment by using historical evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Internalization; Multinational Strategy; Business History; Organization And Management Theory; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Organizations; Theory; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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Fellowships - Business History

Fellowships Fellowships The Business History Initiative offers the following fellowships and grants: The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History This award honors the work and contributions of... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

Cold Call: Women's History Month

  • 26 May 2008
  • News

Making health-care history

  • Web

Projects - Business History

histories of accounting, strategy, international competition, competitive advantage, protectionism and state capitalism, the nature of cross-cultural commercial encounters, and the very long history of... View Details
  • Web

About - Business History

About History has played a vital role at Harvard Business School since the School’s founding. The School’s first Dean, Edwin F. Gay, was an economic historian. In “The Rhythm of History” (1923), Gay wrote, “The self-centered, active... View Details
  • Web

Events - Business History

Events Events Upcoming Events Business History Seminars Nov 25 25 Nov 2024 Business History Seminar Charles Fawell (Yale University), “Empire on the Line: Shipping Corporations, Sovereignty, and the Sea... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Turning Point: Living History

was no museum to learn about this period in history, and nowhere for those affected to record their experiences for the benefit of others. I grew up with my maternal grandparents—the generation that lived through Partition—and saw that many of their friends were dying.... View Details
Keywords: museums; India; nonprofits; career paths; leadership; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • News

Lessons from history

  • 2008
  • Book

The Oxford Handbook of Business History

By: G. Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin
The Handbook of Business History contains 25 original chapters from around the world to present a comprehensive, critical and interdisciplinary examination of current research in business history. The Handbook reveals business history as a wide-ranging and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Research; Economics; Government and Politics
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How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma

By: Tom Nicholas
In 1993, four years prior to the publication of Clayton Christensen’s highly influential book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, the Business History Review (BHR) published an article by Christensen titled “The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of... View Details
Keywords: Clayton Christensen; Impact; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Research
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  • Research Summary

A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey G. Jones
This research recovers the history of the entrepreneurs and firms who developed green or “sustainable” businesses, identifies the multiple motivations behind their strategies, explores the clustering of green business in specific locations, and shows how the concept of... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

History of the HBS Women's Student Association

In celebration of Women's History Month, we want to highlight the remarkable history and evolution of the Women's Student Association (WSA) at Harvard Business School. Established in the early 1970s, the WSA... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • News

Business lessons from history