Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month

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Contemporary Collections

Contemporary Collections aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to business content to the Harvard University community at large.

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Collection Spotlight

Uncovering hidden stories and knowledge in Baker Collections.  

 

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Gobierno revolucionario del Perú: bases sociales que lo apoyan
Martín J. Scurrah & Abner Montalvo
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Agriculture and Trade of El Salvador
Mary S. Coyner
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Wage Differences Between United States and Guatemalan Industrial Firms in Guatemala
Robert Casey Maddox
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Select Business & Economics Titles

Baker and Harvard Libraries have a variety of diverse titles, which are discoverable via HOLLIS.

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The "Greening" of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature
Ana Isla
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The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras
Christopher A. Loperena
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Working Knowledge

HBS Working Knowledge distills the latest faculty research into practical insights for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents. Stay up-to-date by signing up for the Working Knowledge Newsletter.

Doctors and patients turned to virtual communication when the pandemic made in-person appointments risky. But research by Ariel Stern and Mitchell Tang finds that providers' responses can vary depending on a patient's race. Could technology bring more equity to portals?

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Many real estate listings still feature videos and interactive tools that simulate the experience of walking through properties. But do they help homes sell faster? Research by Isamar Troncoso probes the post-pandemic value of virtual home tours.
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Special Collections and Archives

Special Collections and Archives collects and makes available the records of business dating from the 14th century to the present and the records of the Harvard Business School since its founding in 1908.

Spanish Stock Certificate

Accion de la Real Compa. de Comercio establecida en Barcelona; part of the Kress Collection.

Spanish stock certificate issued by the Real Compañía de Comercio de Barcelona in 1758

This stock certificate is among the oldest in existence. It was issued in 1758 by the Real Compañía de Comercio de Barcelona, the best known of the Spanish royal trading companies, which had a monopoly on trade with Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, and Margarita Island, off the Venezuelan coast.

To learn more about this item, please refer to this Harvard Business Review article: The Art of Commerce. Harvard Business Review. 2014; 92(3): 32-33.

United Fruit Company Photograph Collection

Loading bananas-Guatemala, circa 1930


Workers loading bananas in Guatemala during the 1930s

The United Fruit Company engaged in the production, transportation, and marketing of bananas, sugar, cocoa, abaca, and other tropical agricultural products. It owned or leased property in Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, and numerous other Central American, South American, and West Indian countries. By 1930, the company had absorbed more than twenty rival firms and was the largest employer in Central America.

The collection consists of seventy-five photograph albums that document the United Fruit Company’s operations and holdings in Central and South America, the West Indies, and the United States. An overview of the collection is featured on Harvard Library's website.

More than 900 of these photographs have been digitized and are available online.

Thorp D. Sawyer Papers

Thorp D. Sawyer (left) and colleagues near La Paz, Bolivia, 1914


Thorp D. Sawyer (left) and colleagues near La Paz, Bolivia, 1914

Thorp D. Sawyer was an American civil engineer who worked in South America between the 1910s and the 1940s. During his career, Sawyer worked in Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia on construction and engineering projects such as surveys for pipelines and railroads, bridge construction, and in goldmine speculation. The collection contains letters written by Thorp Sawyer to his relatives in the United States describing his life and career in South America. Sawyer’s letters include his perspective on contemporary life in Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia in the early 20th century. He describes the landscape and infrastructure such as railways, the relationship between South American workers and foreign supervisors, and political and economic factors affecting business, mainly between 1914 and 1932.

Herman L. Dillingham Papers

Herman L. Dillingham's Photograph Album No. 2, page 90, 1913


Four images layed out in a square. Men in top hats, cars, nature

Herman Louis Dillingham was appointed secretary of a Boston Chamber of Commerce trade delegation that toured South America in 1913. On April 24, 1913, the delegation sailed from Boston on a three-month voyage to Central and South America. They toured mines, factories, farms, and other local sights.

The collection consists of two scrapbooks, two photograph albums, and a variety of supplemental materials.

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