Credit reports created by America's first commercial reporting agency. This collection is an invaluable resource for understanding the business, social, and cultural world of 19th-century America.
The foundation of the South Sea Bubble Collection held in Baker Library. It consists of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, Parliamentary acts, engravings, broadsides, plays, ballads, and assorted ephemera.
American businesswoman Muriel F. Siebert (1928-2013) was the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to own and direct a brokerage firm that was a member of the NYSE.
One of the most comprehensive collections of the works of Adam Smith in many translations and editions, including The Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, collected works, and miscellaneous writings.
Papers, dated 1664-1854, containing business and personal correspondence, financial records, and legal papers of Thomas Hancock, John Hancock, and other relatives and associates.
Administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and production records of the Waltham-based textile firm founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1813.
Professor Alfred Chandler defined the field of business history. His extensive collection includes his lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence.
During World War II, the U.S. military was facing an increased need for officers trained in statistics and supply chain logistics. The HBS Archives holds records related to many wartime schools held on campus.
A range of industrial films including time-motion studies and demonstrations of manufacturing shop processes. Includes films produced by HBS for teaching topics like labor relations and management.
Covers a wide array of subject areas, including agriculture, textile manufacturing, hardware and tools, railroads, automobiles, aviation, consumer products, furnishings, leisure goods, and scientific instruments.
German-born financier Henry Villard (1835-1900) played key roles in the financing of the transcontinental railroad and development of the electrical industry.
Photographs illustrating the interaction of worker and machine acquired to supplement classroom instruction at the Harvard Business School, where there was an increasing focus on industrial relations during the 1930s.
