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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
SIGN ME UP: Registration at Baker Library in 1960 BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS The presence of female students on the HBS campus is no longer a novelty, but a new Centennial year exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center reveals a time in View Details
- 28 May 2014
- News
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
- 25 Nov 2011
- Other Presentation
The History of Black Friday
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "The History of Black Friday." Marketplace Commentary, American Public Media, November 25, 2011.
- 01 Apr 1974
- Conference Presentation
Urban Communes and Family History
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Urban Communes and Family History." Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Denver, April 01, 1974. (Published as "Roots versus Restlessness: Cooperative Households, The City, and Recurrent Issues in American Family Life." Massachusetts Review 17 (summer 1976):331-53.)
- 18 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
The Delicious History of Hershey Chocolate
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
- 2023
- Article
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa—growth, trade, labor, and inequality—and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Labor; Equality and Inequality; Development Economics; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa." Journal of African History 64, no. 1 (2023): 38–61.
- 08 May 2008
- News
Professor Thomas McCraw Wins the Hagley Prize in Business History
- Web
Oral Histories | Baker Library
Oral Histories Transcripts Betty J. Diener (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964, DBA 1974) Interview by Livingston Grant, March 27, 2000. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project ,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- News
A Better Way to Teach History
- Oct 2017
- Panel Discussion
Business History and Economic Geography
By: Valeria Giacomin
Giacomin, Valeria. "Business History and Economic Geography." Seminar Multiple Futures for Business History, Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA, October 2017.
- 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
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Teaching History in the Present Tense
When Professor David Moss debuted his case-based class, History of American Democracy, he introduced a new way of thinking about the subject: “We’re looking at history as not just a series of things that... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- News
Making History More Relevant, One Case At A Time
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa
This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa — growth, trade, labor, and... View Details
- 2017
- Book
Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Green Business; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Oceania
Jones, Geoffrey. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- September 2005
- Article
Interchange: History in the Professional Schools
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Interchange: History in the Professional Schools." Journal of American History 92, no. 2 (September 2005): 553–576.