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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
  • 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
  • Web

History - Entrepreneurship

About Rock History The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship opened in its headquarters building on the HBS campus in 2003 with the generous donation of $25 million by famed venture capitalist Arthur Rock , MBA 1951 Arthur Rock has... View Details
  • 26 May 2008
  • News

Making health-care history

  • 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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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
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Fellowships - Business History

Fellowships Fellowships The Business History Initiative offers several fellowships and grants The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History This award honors the work and contributions of Thomas... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

Museum of our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts and to explore the question of how this exhibit changes our understanding of women's roles in American economic history. Virginia G. Drachman, a professor of history at Tufts... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

Cold Call: Women's History Month

  • 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
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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
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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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Events - Business History

Events Events Upcoming Events Business History Seminar The Fall 2025 Business History Seminar, co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski, explores the theme "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History."... View Details
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • News

Lessons from history

  • July 2002 (Revised June 2003)
  • Case

Microsoft Financial History

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains background financial data on Microsoft as of mid-2001. View Details
Keywords: History; Analytics and Data Science; Crime and Corruption; Profit
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  • 08 Dec 2009
  • News

Business 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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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
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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
  • 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