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- Financial crises have been a recurring feature of American history. From the 1830s to the 1930s, asset price bubbles inflated and burst multiple times, shattering public confidence and devastating markets in the U.S. and around the world.
Bubbles, Panics & Crashes
- Did you miss Baker Library Services workshops on leveraging our resources for careers and field study? You can still view the slides. November 5.
Career and Field Study Resources
The Lehman Brothers Collection
The Lehman Brothers Collection is a major source for studying business trends through the lens of investment banking. It provides rare access to twentieth-century corporate records pertaining to business transactions, retail development, globalizing markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate growth, and the reshaping of American business.
Women, Enterprise & Society
The Women, Enterprise & Society Web guide identifies materials in the Business Manuscripts Collection that document women's participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.
Institutional Memory
The Institutional Memory website tells the story of HBS with video narratives from faculty, staff, students, and generations of alumni, accompanied by a gallery of historical photos and an interactive timeline.
The Human Factor
Created between the world wars by HBS faculty, the Industrial Life Photograph Collection was intended to provide students, and America's aspiring corporate managers, with visual data to study the interaction of worker and machine
The South Sea Bubble
A complex network of financial, legal, political and cultural factors contributed to the South Sea Bubble and the subsequent financial ruin. This collection guide includes enhanced digital content and provides context for this early market crisis.
The Human Relations Movement
In the 1920s HBS professors led a landmark study of worker behavior at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works plant. The experiments represented a milestone in the dawn of the human relations movement.
Bubbles, Panics & Crashes
Financial crises have been a recurring feature of American history. From the 1830s to the 1930s, asset price bubbles inflated and burst multiple times, shattering public confidence and devastating markets in the U.S. and around the world.