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History of Excellence - Doctoral
History Of Excellence History Of Excellence Part of Harvard University’s tradition of intellectual excellence Harvard Business School’s doctoral programs are an integral part of Harvard University’s... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- News
At Home with History
kept six, all of which are already owned or will eventually be owned by the CAHPT and open to the public. The houses Jenrette worked to preserve for future generations to visit are “part of our heritage,” he said. “Each one could be a time capsule or case View Details
- 04 May 2010
- News
The History of Beauty
- 15 May 2019
- News
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
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History - Health Care
Health Care Initiative History 1967 First Health Care Case: Fischer Pharmaceutical, Co. 1971 Regina Herzlinger becomes the first woman tenured at Harvard Business School 1979 Marlene Krauss becomes the first woman to obtain an MD and an... 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
- 2009
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An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History
Financial history is not conventionally thought of in evolutionary terms, but it should be. Traditional ways of thinking about finance, dating back to Hilferding, emphasize the importance of concentration and economies of scale. But these approaches overlook the rich... View Details
Ferguson, Niall. "An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History." Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, no. 74 (2009): 449–454.
- July 2006
- Article
Bringing History (Back) into International Business
By: G. Jones and Tarun Khanna
We argue that the field of international business should evolve its rhetoric from the relatively uncontroversial idea that 'history matters' to exploring how it matters. We discuss four conceptual channels through which history matters, illustrating each with a major... View Details
Jones, G., and Tarun Khanna. "Bringing History (Back) into International Business." Journal of International Business Studies 37, no. 4 (July 2006): 453–468.
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Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 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
- 2010
- Book
A History of Irish Economic Thought
For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke, and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary, and Gorman, it is surprising that no... View Details
Boylan, Thomas, Renee Prendergast, and John Turner, eds. A History of Irish Economic Thought. London: Routledge, 2010.
- 2019
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VC: An American History
By: Tom Nicholas
An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; History; United States
Nicholas, Tom. VC: An American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. (Chinese Edition: 风投 看懂巨头的投资倾向 汤姆·尼古拉斯 著 中信出版社, Beijing: CITIC Press, 2020; Japanese Edition: ベンチャーキャピタル全史 トム・ニコラス, Shinchosha Publishing, 2022.)
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
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Faculty & Research - Business History
Faculty & Research Faculty & Research Harvard Business School faculty members have made notable contributions to the history of business. Faculty research is diverse, based in several of the School’s units, and reflects disciplinary... View Details
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Our Curriculum - Business History
Courses Our Curriculum HBS has been offering business history courses since 1927. There are three business history courses currently taught in the MBA curriculum: The Coming of Managerial Capitalism,... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Federal Express: Early History
Describes key events in the start-up of Federal Express. Outlines the company's value proposition and provides an overview of key competitors in the air freight industry. This case is used with Teledesic (Abridged), HBS No. 9-804-096, which describes a failed project... View Details
Lovelock, Christopher H. "Federal Express: Early History." Harvard Business School Case 804-095, November 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 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 of American capitalism builds on these disciplinary trends in history, economics, political... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 07 Nov 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives
Keywords: by Ann-Kristin Bergquist
- 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
Corts, Kenneth S., and Deborah Freier. "A Brief History of the Browser Wars." Harvard Business School Case 703-517, June 2003.
- 2014
- Book
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Globalized Markets and Industries; Society; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.