Publications

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

2018
Book

Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

By: Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore

When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he... View Details

Keywords: Morals; Politics; Istvan Hont; Jealousy Of Trade; Enlightenment; Economic Nationalism; Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History

01 Sep 2014
News

Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

is left in the hands of consultants and trainers. This, he says, is just the start of a larger problem: the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

The Visible Hand of History

As the Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar at HBS in 2018, I was curious to learn more about the way business history is embedded in research and pedagogy in... View Details

September 2016
Background Note

A Brief History of African American Leaders in Unions and the Labor Movement

By: Steven Rogers and Mercer Cook

This historically focused background note highlights the role of African American Labor Leaders in both the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. In doing so, it attempts to both highlight these noteworthy individuals and demonstrate the innate connection... View Details

Keywords: Wages; Working Conditions; Political History; Social History; Economic History; Business History; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Labor And Management Relations; Social Issues; Culture; Equality And Inequality; Rights; Leading Change; Race; Civil Society or Community; Labor Unions

Educators

2009
Chapter

Entrepreneurship and the History of Globalization

By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani

In this article, we build on the recent efforts of scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research... View Details

Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; Resource Allocation; Research; Entrepreneurship; Cognition and Thinking; Growth and Development Strategy

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

a collection of interesting articles across the history of the paper. There were already a few publications on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

and modern agriculture. The New History of American Capitalism By Sven Beckert and Christine Desan The new history... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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 View Details

January 2002
Background Note

History of Investment Banking

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Lynn Villadolid Roy

Describes the history of investment banking. View Details

Keywords: Business History; Investment Banking

Educators

01 Dec 2016
News

The Future of Books

Above: photo by Brian Doben You’ve had a varied career in book publishing. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen in your 15 years in View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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

17 Aug 2019
News

Two worthy books trace the history of tech through Silicon Valley, leaving Seattle’s story still to be told

June 2003
Case

A Brief History of the Browser Wars

Recounts the history of the evolution of browser market shares from 1994 forward. Netscape's Navigator establishes a huge early lead, but is then displaced by an equally dominant offering from Microsoft. Highlights the role of Microsoft's dominance in desktop operating... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Marketing Strategy; Software; Web Services Industry

Educators