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
African business history, Commodities, consumption
Business and Culture, business and consumption, Business and social history of socialist systems
Entrepreneurial families, Business History, History of Science and Technology
Ph.D. received 2007
Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2019
Financial history, Business and Economic History, urban history
International Business, Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Corporations
Ph.D. received 2010
Executive education, Business education, Industrial clusters
Corporate Social Responsibility, entertainment, entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial History, entrepreneurship, Colonial India
Ph.D. received 2023
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
Foreign Direct Investment, Business-Government Relations, Corporate Politics
African business history, Labor History, British Empire
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
African business history, Labor History, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship
Financial Economics, Business History
Agribusiness, Agriculture, Business-Government Relations
American Economic History, Financial history, International Financial History; Monetary History; Energy History; political economy of mass consumption; Italy in the first economic globalization
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-Government Relations, R&D, International and strategic management
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
Business-Government Relations, privately held companies, Political Economy
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
African business history, European Common Market, Business and Economic History
financial regulation, Finance, Financial Economics
Ph.D. received 2019
Latin American business history, Business Groups, Entrepreneurial families
Business and Economic History, Strategy, Corporate Governance
Multinational Corporations, Political Economy, Institutional Change
sub-Saharan Africa, multinational companies, historical theory
Ph.D. received 2006
Money and finance, American Economic History, American History
inequality, Caste, Business and Economic History
Business and Economic History, Economic History, American Economic History
Financial history, International Financial History; Monetary History; Energy History; political economy of mass consumption; Italy in the first economic globalization, Economic and Business History
Business Law, Stock exchange history, Stock Trading and Investment
Institutional Change, institutions, Entrepreneurial History
History of Science and Technology, 19th century, 20th century
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
20th century, Chinese economy and business, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship
Innovation, entrepreneurship, History of Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2005
Post Office, material and visual culture, history of communication
Business History, History of technology, Socialism
Ph.D. received 2004
historical methodology, uses of the past, History of Capitalism
Product Design, African business history, International Trade
Sport & Business, Entrepreneurial History, Auto Industry
Ph.D. received 2013
family business, Business and Culture, Business education
Ph.D. received 2015
political economy; communications; nineteenth-century
20th century, American Economic History, Business and Economic History
History of Science-Medicine-Technology, historical theory, History of Industrial Research
History of Capitalism, Modern China, Entreprenuership
Ph.D. received 2021
Business and Culture, Corporate culture, Corporate organization
Latin America, History of Consumption, Commodity Chains
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
Financial history, Latin America, Political Economy
United States, Twentieth Century, Consumer Culture
Ph.D. received 2020
History of Industrial Research, History of U.S. Entrepreneurship
Economic and Business History, Energy, Latin American business history
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 and Economic History, Cold War history, History of Capitalism
institutions, Institutional Change, geopolitics
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
International Business, Business and Economic History, Political Economy
Insurance, United States History, Public policy and regulation
19th century, 19th century finance, Banks
History of Industrial Research, Fashion and Textiles, Technological Change
International and strategic management, shared entrepreneurship, Management History
International Business, Multinational Corporations, Foreign Direct Investment
Business and Economic History, Cold War history, American Economic History
History of Capitalism, Financial history, World War II
Ph.D. received 2022
State-Owned Enterprise, Economic and Business History, neoliberalism
Ph.D. received 2017
20th c. US., Multinationals Offshoring Business-Governement Relations, Business History
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
19th century, 20th century, Economic and Business History
Ph.D. received 2012
history of publishing, Publishing., Creative Industries
entrepreneurship, SMEs, Small Business
Economic and Business History
Economic Development, International Trade, Manufacturing
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
Business History, Innovation, Korean
Institutional Change, institutions, organization studies
Ph.D. received 2008
Business History, Business and Economic History, Economic History
Industrialization, Commodities, uses of the past
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, Management History, Sport & Business
Ph.D. received 2003
20th c. US., industry dynamics, Management theory and history; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;
Banking, Chinese economy and business, Financial history
Financial history, Banking, central banking
Business History
Ph.D. received 2009
Business History, Banking, political economy and social responsibility.
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
African business history, Business History, Financial history
Corporate Governance, Business Management, political economy and social responsibility.
Business History, Business Law, gender and enterprise
Ph.D. received 2004
Business History, Colombian Business History, Economic History
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
Slavery, History of Capitalism, Financial history
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
African business history, sub-Saharan Africa, Business and Economic History
International Trade, African-American Management History, Women
Latin American business history, Energy, Oil Industry
Ph.D. received 2021
economic groups, family business, multinationals
History of Entrepreneurship
Ph.D. received 2015
Economic History, environmental history, History of Science and Technology
State-Owned Enterprise, Corporate Governance, Multinational Corporations
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
Business and Economic History, Entrepreneurial History, copyright law
Organizations, Industrial clusters, industrial-labor relations
20th century, business culture, Business History
infrastructure, Transnational history, Global Histroy
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
Brazil, Slavery, retail payments (cashless; credit cards)
19th century finance, History of Money, History of Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2022
Ph.D. received 0005
Business education, Accounting, cultural/intellectual history
African-American History, American West, 19th century
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
Business and Economic History, food studies, environmental history
Ph.D. received 1997
Business and Economic History, Economic and Business History, central banking
Public Finance, Institutional Change, Economic History
Public Finance, Economic History, Institutional Change
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
Business History, International Business, Strategy
antimonopoly, Public policy and regulation
Ph.D. received 1990
Strategy, Corporate Governance, Colonial India
Ph.D. received 2007
Business History, Chinese economy and business, business and consumption
Retailing, supply chains and globalization, Business and social history of socialist systems
Ph.D. received 2019
Business Groups, Foreign Direct Investment
Corporate Governance, family business, Financial history
Business History, Communication, history of communication
Business-Government Relations, Contracts, African-American Management History
Historia económica, Historia del pensamiento económico, Latinoamérica
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
History of Science and Technology, Business History, American History
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
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
Advertising and Marketing Industries, History of Consumption, History of Industrial Research
Higher Education, Higher Education, International Development
Finance, Financial history, financial regulation
Business and Economic History, Banking, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship
Management History, Manufacturing, Business and Economic 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
East Asian modern business history
Management theory and history; Leadership; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, Social and Cultural, Technology and Business
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.