Historical Returns

Historical Returns

Multimedia Capsules:

Capsule 1

Capsule One

Financial Bubbles

An exploration of parallels between the South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the modern high-tech bubble.

Capsule 2

Coming Soon

Linking Ideas Across Time

A series of multimedia capsules exploring connections between historical events and their modern counterparts

Each capsule, at left, has four parts:

  • Short Movie evoking comparisons between history and the present
  • Historical Gallery of images from the historical event
  • Further Reading on the subject
  • More from HBS: Related resources from Baker Library and links to other resources at HBS

Find out more about the Historical Returns series . Proceed

Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School