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- A new book edited by HBS faculty on venture financing is now available. "Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship" was edited by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon. Other new arrivals include "Thinking, Fast and Slow", by Dan Kahneman, and "True North Groups", by professor Bill George. March 5.
Entrepreneur Financing Book at Baker
A Chronicle of the China Trade
The Heard papers, one of the largest collections of business records relating to the nineteenth-century China trade, present a look into momentous events of Sino-Western relations and the day-to-day activities of American traders in the treaty ports.
The High Art of Photographic Advertising
In 1934, a stunning photographic exhibition sponsored by the National Alliance of Art and Industry opened. The show featured works by the top photographers of the day with an emphasis on advertising and industrial images.
Latin American Business History
Oral history interviews with twenty-one leading Argentinean and Chilean business practitioners provide a valuable resource for research on the business history of Latin American Southern Cone countries.
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.
Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit
Credit is a new development in economic history, right? Wrong. As this new exhibit shows, while the institutions and instruments of twenty-first century credit are less than a century old, credit is as old as commerce.
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.
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism
Unprecedented in size and complexity, the nineteenth century railroad system of the United States made possible an unparalleled level of commerce and became one of the models on which the foundations of modern capitalism would be based.