Roundtable: Teaching Business History Across Disciplines and Borders

In this roundtable, we will engage in a practical discussion on the potential role that business history can play in and beyond business education. In particular, we want to discuss how our discipline might appeal to and have practical application for aspiring practitioners across several sectors, as opposed to a narrower focus on fostering future researchers within the discipline. Based on the experiences and challenges of the GLOCAL program (an Erasmus Mundus International Master Degree Program in “global markets, local creativities”), we will discuss how to define the skills that students will acquire from business history, what kind of educational content and methods they need, and how to communicate the value of these skills and knowledge to potential students and wider society. In this roundtable we will share with you our experiences on the world's first international master's program designed and offered almost entirely by business historians co-operatively across seven universities in seven countries, and welcome your input and experiences in what we hope will be a fruitful dialogue towards raising the profile of our field.