Faculty Books
Faculty Books is a listing of new books by HBS faculty acquired by Baker Library.
To see all publications by a faculty member, visit the HBS Faculty and Research site. For a complete listing of all books recently acquired by Baker Library | Bloomberg Center see New Books in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center.
Featured Faculty Book
The Oxford Handbook of Business History
by Geoffrey Jones
From the author:
The purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of business history research worldwide. It seeks to speak to researchers in management, economics, sociology, and history who want to know about the latest research in business history, as well as to a wider audience beyond academia, including practitioners, who are interested in learning from the past of business.
Handbooks such as the Oxford series perform a useful role in making disciplinary research accessible to nonspecialists. Academics have a growing tendency to pursue ever-narrower research agendas and to talk primarily to their own discipline, resulting in a chronic problem of knowledge existing in silos and different disciplines reinventing wheels.
This problem particularly affects business history, making this handbook especially significant. Business historians over recent decades have generated rich empirical data on firms and business systems. They can in some cases confirm, and in others challenge, many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines. Yet for a number of reasons their research rarely permeates into wider literatures.
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Recently Acquired HBS Faculty Books:
Innovation corrupted: the origins and legacy of Enron's collapse Salter, Malcolm S. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Buy this book
Venture capital and private equity: a casebook Lerner, Joshua. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, c2009. Buy this book
Marketing metaphoria: what seven deep metaphors reveal about the minds of consumers Zaltman, Gerald. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, c2008. Buy this book
The Oxford handbook of business history Jones, Geoffrey, 1952- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Buy this book
Predictable surprises: the disasters you should have seen coming, and how to prevent them Bazerman, Max H. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press ; London: McGraw-Hill [distributor], c2008. Buy this book
Financial economics Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton, David L. Cleeton. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009. Buy this book
Harvard business review on talent management Khurana, Rakesh, 1967- Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Pub., c2008. Buy this book
How to write a great business plan Sahlman, William Andrews. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, c2008. Buy this book
Greater good: how good marketing makes for better democracy Quelch, John A. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Press, c2007. Buy this book
Managing your boss Gabarro, John J. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, c2008. Buy this book
Our communities, our homes: pathways to housing and homeownership in America's cities and states Cisneros, Henry. Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, c2007.