David Shorten

Manager, Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School

Business History, Finance, International Business, Diplomacy, Business Law
Business Historians at Business Schools

David Shorten is Manager of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School and a historian of the modern United States. His scholarship addresses the development of business-government relations abroad in the twentieth century.

Service to the BHC

Ralph Gomory Prize Committee 2025 - 2028 [Chair 2026 - 2027]

Recent Conference Participation

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Business and the Mexican Revolution: Rivalries and Co-Creation"
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, "Baby Octopuses: Sovereign Debt Monopolies in the Circum-Caribbean, 1890-1910"
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "International Bankers, Postwar Settlement, and the Progressive Party of 1924 "
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "International Financiers and the Reinvention of U.S. Neutrality in the circum-Caribbean, 1900-1914"