Publication

2009 - President and Fellows of Harvard College, Boston, Mass., Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

6,500 words, Guess

Page Count

26 pages

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Description

Examination of the role of primary source materials in contemporary scholarly research by showcasing a selection of recent publications by Harvard Business School faculty and fellows that drew extensively from the extraordinary breadth of historical documents held at Harvard Business School. Publications featured: Tom Nicholas, "The Ice King." Harvard Business School Case 808-094 (Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Publishing, 2007); Rakesh Khurana, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007); Walter Friedman, "The Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States." Working Paper No. 07-045, Harvard Business School, January 2007; Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007).

Subjects

Topics

ExhibitionsLibrary exhibitsArchival resourcesBaker Library. Historical Collections

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