Business Historians at Business Schools
Business Historians at Business Schools
Business history has long been included in the curriculum of MBA and undergraduate business programs in the conviction that training in leadership requires a long-term and internationally focused view of the world. Faculty and programs in business schools around the world have made significant contributions to the development and growth of business history. Yet the culture and priorities of management training differ somewhat from those in departments of history and economics. The BHC has many members teaching in schools of management and business who work to expand the role of business history in the curriculum of their institutions. They have created an informal networking group whose members come together over lunch at the BHC annual meeting to discuss issues and concerns.

Accounting, Business History
Ph.D. received 2010

1850s-1940s, Advertising and Marketing Industries, American Consumer Culture
Ph.D. received 2019
publishing, Sport & Business, International Development
Ph.D. received 2022

Entrepreneurial families, Business History, History of Science and Technology
Ph.D. received 2007

Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2019

International Business, Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Corporations
Ph.D. received 2010

Executive education, Business education, Industrial clusters

Entrepreneurial History, entrepreneurship, Colonial India
Ph.D. received 2023

Corporate Social Responsibility, entertainment, entrepreneurship

Historia económica, Historia empresarial, Political Economy

Economic and Business History, Industrialization, Financial history

Economic History, State-Owned Enterprise
Ph.D. received 2021
Economic History, Deindustrialization, philanthropic foundations

Legal History, American Economic History, the history of the corporation
Ph.D. received 2021

African business history, Economic History, political economy and social responsibility.
Ph.D. received 2024

Ph.D. received 2006

Ph.D. received 2002

retail payments (cashless; credit cards), automation, history of computers
Ph.D. received 1998

Business-Government Relations, African business history, Agribusiness
Ph.D. received 2017

African-American Management History, African-American History, Black Business

Businesswomen in Australia, Colonial Businesswomen in Australia and New Zealand
Ph.D. received 2012

Financial Economics, Business History

Agribusiness, Agriculture, Business-Government Relations


Business History, Black Business, Business and Economic History

Entrepreneurial History, Innovation, History of Entrepreneurship
Ph.D. received 2022

Latin America, Oil Multinationals, Energy

Strategy, family business, emotions

Business and Economic History, Business and Culture

Colombian Business History, The Circulation of Ideas and Technologies, Globalizing Latin America
Ph.D. received 2018

Innovation, History of technology, industrial finance
History of Entrepreneurship, Technological Change, Innovation
Ph.D. received 2013

Management theory and history; Leadership; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, historical methodology, Networks

Legal History, financial regulation, History of Money
Ph.D. received 2020
Advertising and Marketing Industries, supply chains and globalization
Ph.D. received 2016

Modern China, East Asian modern business history, History of Capitalism

Microfinance, Latin American business history
Ph.D. received 2014

State-Owned Enterprise, Energy, Deindustrialization
Ph.D. received 2009

Financial history, central banking, financial regulation

financial regulation, Finance, Financial Economics
Ph.D. received 2019

Latin American business history, Business Groups, Entrepreneurial families
Multinational Corporations, Political Economy, Institutional Change

sub-Saharan Africa, multinational companies, historical theory
Ph.D. received 2006

Business Law, Stock exchange history, Stock Trading and Investment

Institutional Change, institutions, Entrepreneurial History

Corporate Governance, Business Political Activism, Business-Government Relations
Ph.D. received 1984

East Asia, Europe, Modern, Early Modern Europe

Historia empresarial, History of Industrial Research, Networks
Ph.D. received 2013

Historia empresarial, Public Finance, Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2020

Industrialization; Mining and Metals; Futures Markets; International Business; Modern US

Innovation, entrepreneurship, History of Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2005

Post Office, material and visual culture, history of communication

historical methodology, uses of the past, History of Capitalism

Sport & Business, Entrepreneurial History, Auto Industry
Ph.D. received 2013

family business, Business and Culture, Business education
Ph.D. received 2015

20th century, American Economic History, Business and Economic History

History of Capitalism, Modern China, Entreprenuership
Ph.D. received 2021

Business and Culture, Corporate culture, Corporate organization

Business, Business and Economic History

Entrepreneurial History, Innovation, History of Entrepreneurship
Ph.D. received 2024

entrepreneurship, History of Entrepreneurship, family business

Global Histroy, Entrepreneurial History, Industrial clusters
Ph.D. received 2016

Corporate culture, Managerial Elites, General Business History

US History since 1865; history of capitalism; antimonopoly; politics of consumption, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship, Department Stores

United States, Twentieth Century, Consumer Culture
Ph.D. received 2020

History of Industrial Research, History of U.S. Entrepreneurship

Business and social history of socialist systems, Social and Cultural, gender and work


Transportation, Agriculture, Risk
Ph.D. received 2005

Innovation, History of Science and Technology, History of technology
Business History, Strategy, International Business

American Economic History, Economic and Business History, Economic History
Ph.D. received 2023

Business and Economic History, Business History, Entrepreneurial History

Business and Economic History, Chinese economy and business, Modern China

19th century, 19th century finance, Banks

History of Industrial Research, Fashion and Textiles, Technological Change

International and strategic management, shared entrepreneurship, Management History


State-Owned Enterprise, Economic and Business History, neoliberalism
Ph.D. received 2017

Urban Development, American Consumer Culture, history of advertising and consumer culture

Entrepreneurial families, Entrepreneurial History, family business

Labor History, Management theory and history; Leadership; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, Business Political Activism

International Financial History; Monetary History; Energy History; political economy of mass consumption; Italy in the first economic globalization, 20th c. US., African business history

Ph.D. received 1972

Ph.D. received 2014

Business and Economic History, Chinese economy and business, Auto Industry

19th century, 20th century, Economic and Business History
Ph.D. received 2012

entrepreneurship, SMEs, Small Business

Economic and Business History

Fashion, consumer information economy, American Consumer Culture

Energy, Auto Industry, Management
Ph.D. received 2024

History of interfirm relationship, International comparative study of history of management system
Ph.D. received 2002

Institutional Change, institutions, organization studies
Ph.D. received 2008

Business History, Business and Economic History, Economic History

uses of the past, Industrialization, Agriculture
Ph.D. received 2005

Higher Education, historical methodology
Ph.D. received 2021

Digital Humanities, Business History
Ph.D. received 2017

Innovation, Industrial clusters, History of technology
Ph.D. received 2018

Business and Culture, Latin American business history, Economic History
Ph.D. received 2021

Banking, Microfinance, Sport & Business
Ph.D. received 2003

Banking, Chinese economy and business, Financial history

Business History
Ph.D. received 2009

History of Entrepreneurship, Business and Economic History, Business and social history of socialist systems
Ph.D. received 2011

Media Industries, political economy; communications; nineteenth-century, Transportation

Financial history, Globalization, financial regulation
Ph.D. received 2021

Economic and Business History, Technological Change, History of Science and Technology
Ph.D. received 1996

Banking, Foreign Direct Investment, Business History
Ph.D. received 2002

History of management, History of Science and Technology, Consumer Culture

institutions, Trade
Ph.D. received 2005

Economic History, 19th century finance, Financial history
Ph.D. received 2009

Capitalism
Ph.D. received 1996

History of Capitalism, American Consumer Culture, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship

WTO, Business Law, economic integration


Business History, Business Law, gender and enterprise
Ph.D. received 2004

Historia empresarial
Ph.D. received 1981

Business and Economic History, European Common Market, industrial-labor relations

Professional Firms, Corporate Governance, Management History

Financial Institutions, Consumer Credit, Payday lending

African business history, Economic History, Department Stores
Ph.D. received 2024

Strategy, Marketing, global brands

marketing strategy, Media Industries, Telecommunication

Historia empresarial, Historia del pensamiento económico, Historia económica
Ph.D. received 2017

Institutional Change, Creative Industries, History of Science and Technology
Ph.D. received 2016

Latin American business history, Energy, Oil Industry
Ph.D. received 2021

economic groups, family business, multinationals

History of Entrepreneurship
Ph.D. received 2015

Latin America
Ph.D. received 2018

neoliberalism, Business and social history of socialist systems, Socialism

business and consumption, Marketing, Advertising and Marketing Industries
Ph.D. received 2006

Advertising and Marketing Industries, Consumer Cultures, global brands

Organizations, Industrial clusters, industrial-labor relations

20th century, business culture, Business History

History of management, history of management thought, Political Economy
Ph.D. received 2010

family business, SMEs, Management
Ph.D. received 2019

family business
Ph.D. received 2020

Innovation, Management History, WTO

19th century finance, History of Money, History of Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2022

Ph.D. received 0005


African-American Management History

Labor History
Ph.D. received 2004

Management theory and history; Leadership; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, Management theory and history; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, organization studies
Ph.D. received 2022

Early Modern Europe, Colonial India, Guilds

Energy, Natural Gas, pipelines

Transportation, regulation, Railways
Ph.D. received 2009

Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing Industries, Transnational Consumer Culture
Ph.D. received 1993

Oil Multinationals, Colonial India, Legal History
Ph.D. received 2023

Racial Capitalism, Corporate culture, Culture Industries and Markets

Entrepreneurial History, Small Business, Public policy and regulation

Financial history, 19th century finance, Business History

Ph.D. received 1997

Business History, Business Groups, Evolution of the Firm
Ph.D. received 2021

organization studies, historical methodology, History of management

Labor History, Business and Economic History, Business and Culture

Economic History, Economic and Business History, Labor History
Business History, History of management, International and strategic management
Ph.D. received 2005

central banking, Business and Economic History, Managerial Elites

Borderlands, Latin America (Mexico), American Economic History
Ph.D. received 2004

Business History, Entrepreneurial History, family business
Ph.D. received 1999

Business History

history of communication, Transportation, Business Management

Business and Culture, International Expansion, British Empire

antimonopoly, Public policy and regulation
Ph.D. received 1990

Strategy, Corporate Governance, Colonial India
Ph.D. received 2007

Retailing, supply chains and globalization, Business and social history of socialist systems
Ph.D. received 2019

Capitalism, Financial history, Public policy and regulation

Business Groups, Foreign Direct Investment

Business History, Economic and Business History, Institutional Change

Corporate Governance, family business, Financial history

Business-Government Relations, Contracts, African-American Management History

Business History, Labor History
Ph.D. received 2020

Labor, Consumer Culture, General Business History

History of financial infrastructure, African business history, Stock exchange history

Business History, Business Management, Corporate Social Responsibility
Ph.D. received 2019

International Financial History; Monetary History; Energy History; political economy of mass consumption; Italy in the first economic globalization

beauty, gender and enterprise, gender
Ph.D. received 2018

Colombia, Colombian Business History, History of Money

Ph.D. received 2021

Business and Economic History, urban history, Colonial India
Ph.D. received 2012

political economy; communications; nineteenth-century, Art World, Visual Art

the history of the corporation, Energy, Technology and Business

Historia económica, Historia de los impuestos, Historia empresarial

Advertising, 20th century, American Consumer Culture
Ph.D. received 2019

Military Uniforms, Defence Industries, Innovation

Business and Economic History, Economic and Business History, Spain
Ph.D. received 2017

Corporate Governance, Insurance, Economic History
Ph.D. received 2019

African business history
Ph.D. received 1987

Economic and Business History, Latin American business history, Transportation
Ph.D. received 1989

Economic History, Economic and Business History, American Economic History
Ph.D. received 2020

Higher Education, Higher Education, International Development

Finance, Financial history, financial regulation

Management History, Manufacturing, Business and Economic History

East Asia, History of Science and Technology, East Asian modern business history

Business History, Entrepreneurial History, family business
Ph.D. received 2016

20th century, Business and Culture, Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2017

Management History
Ph.D. received 2018

financial regulation, information technology, Technology and Business

standardization

family business, institutions, Entrepreneurial History
Ph.D. received 2022

family business, Technological Change, Innovation
Ph.D. received 2018
Bibliography: Business Historian at Business Schools; Teaching Business History
The following resources may prove useful for those teaching business history in business schools and for those wishing to increase the cross-fertilization of business history and management studies. Links are provided when available.
Allen, R.C. (2011) Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. Illustrated edition. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.