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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 making the announcement, Dean Nitin Nohria acknowledged that “HBS faculty members have long been recognized as pioneers in the creation of the field, and the Business History Review sets the standard for business history scholarship.” HBS professor Geoffrey Jones and research fellow Walter Friedman, coeditors of the 85-year-old publication, will serve, respectively, as faculty chair and as director of the new initiative.
In a Business History Review article last spring, Jones and Friedman challenged business historians to tackle big subjects with major importance to the future of business, such as environmental sustainability, entrepreneurship, innovation, and globalization. “Fierce argument and methodological innovation have moved academic subjects forward, not bland rejections of previous frameworks,” they wrote. “We believe it is time for a quantum leap in academic ambition in the field of business history.”
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