The Business History Initiative (BHI) seeks to enable and encourage educators, practitioners and scholars to understand the past in order to better navigate today's global business world. Associated …

This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin …

Mar 17, 2008 · Compiling a handbook on the current thinking in any area of study seems daunting enough, but the just-published Oxford Handbook of Business History carries an even larger mission: …

Nov 16, 2009 · From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in …

Harvard Business School is among the world’s most trusted sources of management education and thought leadership. It is a dynamic ecosystem of research, learning, and entrepreneurship that …

Special Collections & Archives holds nearly 1,600 collections of original records that document the growth of American business and the development of business practice from the 17th century to the …

The Business History Initiative continues this tradition and seeks to facilitate and promote course development in business history globally. We provide a detailed overview of HBS’s own history …

The history of managerial capitalism in the United States offers students a comparative point of reference for considering business strategy as well as economic and social change across time and …

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, …

This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin …