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- Today's Hours:
- News business books are on hand to greet new students, led by the popular "Predictably Rational?: In Search of Defenses for Rational Behavior in Economics". Other arrivals include "Smart Growth" and "Two Dragon Heads: Contrasting Development Paths for Beijing and Shanghai". September 3.
"Predictably Rational" Arrives
- For those wishing to monitor science for potential commercial developments, the library has a new subscription that may be just the ticket: Science-Business eXchange, or SciBX. July 16.
Keeping Current on Commercial Developments in Science
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.
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.
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.