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22 Feb 2018
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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

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Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist

This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective

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June 2003
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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

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Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila and Geoffrey Jones

This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies

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2003
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British and Dutch Business History

By: G. Jones and Keetie Sluyterman

Keywords: Business History; United Kingdom; Netherlands

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01 Mar 2012
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Business History Gets a Boost

A leader in the study of business history, HBS recently announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that underscores the importance of the topic to business management. In... View Details

Keywords: Dean Nitin Nohria; Professor Geoffrey G. Jones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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 a business school, especially in the school where the... View Details

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Prozac—Controversial Blockbuster: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins

This case history describes the development of Prozac, a blockbuster drug that transformed the treatment of depression – and became a cultural phenomenon in the United States. Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) prior treatments for depression and the research that... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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12 Dec 2018
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Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

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Teaching Resources - Business History

Teaching Resources Harvard Business School has taught business history since 1927. Today around half of the 900 students in the second year of the Harvard MBA take one or more of the business history... View Details

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

Oct 2017
Panel Discussion

Business History and Economic Geography

By: Valeria Giacomin

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Impact Stories - Business History

Present Re: Bahia El Oddi (MBA 2019) The Visible Hand of History Re: Chinmay Tumbe Business of Emerging Markets Re: Valeria Giacomin Responsibility of Business Re: Ann-Kristin Bergquist Leading with the Long View Re: Sherry Ho (MBA 2016)... View Details

March 25, 2008
Article

Will History Happen to You?

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: History

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28 May 2014
News

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

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 more specific subjects: For example, Floyd Norris, a well-respected columnist at the Times, edited a book on the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

2003
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Business History Around the World

By: Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones

This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. It provides wide-ranging surveys of the literature in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Japan and the Chinese-speaking world, and examines... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Debates; Business History; Body of Literature; Surveys; Business and Government Relations; Research; China; Japan; Europe; Latin America; United States

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18 Aug 2017
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Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

Keywords: by Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila, and Geoffrey Jones

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman