Publications

January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
Technical Note

Deglobalization and Alternative Futures

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin

This note reviews the evidence that the world is undergoing an era of de-globalization. It shows that available metrics show some support for this theory. However there is also evidence that what is happening might be better described as regionalization. The nature of... View Details

Keywords: Global Business; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, And Changes; Populism; Geopolitics; Business History; Globalization; Change; Financial Crisis; China

01 Dec 2006
News

Baker Library Photo Exhibit

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS A special exhibit, “The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library,” opened at Baker in October and will run through March 7, 2007. The often highly stylized images,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the impact of big business on public policy, he says, comes at a high... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

24 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking

2022
Article

Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300-1600

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

This essay uses the concept of 'copynorms', social norms about copying expressive works that can be distinct from legal norms about the same, in order to understand the meaning of intellectual property among Roman law and canon law jurists from the fourteenth through... View Details

Keywords: Copyright; History; Europe

2011
Chapter

Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway

By: Sophus A. Reinert

Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Italy; Germany; Norway; Denmark

2000
Chapter

The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; Government and Politics; China

July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Great Depression: Causes and Impact (Abridged)

Provides a vehicle for discussing the problems caused by the Great Depression. View Details

Keywords: History; Financial Crisis; United States

15 Jun 2016
News

Why Harvard Business School teaches students about whaling

10 May 2020
News

The Brilliant Success of Shackleton’s Failure

History's Guiding Light

fascinated me; it inspired me to pursue my doctoral studies and delve into business scholarship. The HBS Business History Initiative provided me both the historical tools and the space to explore. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to... View Details

December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
Case

General Electric's 20th Century CEOs

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson

General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and manufacture new and... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style