HBS Fall 2025 Business History Seminar
From the Business History Initiative
The schedule for the 2025 Business History Seminar, “Rethinking Entrepreneurial History,” are below. The seminar is organized by Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Christina Lubinski, Thomas K. McCraw Fellow, HBS. The sessions will be held over Zoom on Mondays from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST.
If you are interested in joining these sessions, please email bhi@hbs.edu for more information.
Seminar Schedule
September 29, 2025
Dan Wadhwani (USC Marshall)
Moral Imaginaries of Entrepreneurship in the US, 1775–2025
October 6, 2025
Justene Hill Edwards (University of Virginia)
Rethinking Black Entrepreneurship in the Aftermath of American Slavery
October 20, 2025
Mircea Raianu (University of Maryland)
The Utopian Entrepreneurs: Surrendering Ownership at Scott Bader and Olivetti, ca. 1945–1960
October 27, 2025
David Smith (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Reimagining the Mid-Century American Corporation: Spirituality, Business Ethics and the Campaign of the Federal Council of Churches
November 3, 2025
Andrea Lluch (CONICET/Universidad de los Andes)
Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development in the Global South: Knowledge Transfer and Technical and Financial Cooperation from International Organizations (1960s-1970s)
November 10, 2025
Jan-Otmar Hesse (University of Bayreuth)
Political Entrepreneurship in the German Export Industry after 1945
November 17, 2025
Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University)
Submarine Telegraph in the First Era of Globalization: Entrepreneurs, Companies, Networks