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Business history.

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

William J. Abernathy papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 2
Scope and Contents: The William J. Abernathy papers consist of correspondence, subject files, teaching materials, administrative records, speeches, and writings related to his research on the automobile industry. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Abernathy and HBS professors and administrators, colleagues at other academic institutions, and business leaders. The correspondence relates to his research, inquiries about papers he wrote, company board of directors responsibilities and...

Charles M. Williams papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 94
Overview:

Teaching and research records of HBS professor Charles M. Williams.

Wallace Brett Donham cases and teaching files

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 18.41
Overview:

The Wallace Brett Donham cases and teaching files span 1921 to 1949 and holds lecture notes and cases for first year students at the Harvard Business School.

Wallace Brett Donham papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 18.5
Overview:

The Wallace Brett Donham papers contains materials between 1933 to 1955 concerning Dean Donham's career at the Harvard Business School.

J. Franklin Ebersole papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 21
Scope and Contents: The J. Franklin Ebersole papers consist of correspondence, HBS administrative records, class notes, course materials, conference materials, consulting and non HBS committee work, speeches, articles written, book research, and two early academic papers written by Ebersole.The correspondence makes up the bulk of the records and includes letters to and from former and current students, colleagues, peers, and firms including banks and investment companies. The letters to and from...

Wilbur B. England papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 23
Scope and Contents:

Collection consists of course materials, cases, reports, administrative and curriculum files, special programs and seminars, and subject files kept by Professor Wilbur B. England.

Franklin E. Folts papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 29
Scope and Contents: Between 1940 and 1941, Harvard Business School professor Franklin E. Folts taught Reserve Officers' Industrial Training Course Organization for Management Section, Industrial Mobilization, and Introduction to National Defense as part of officer training conducted jointly by the United States Armed Services and HBS. The papers consist of classrom teaching materials including tests, quizzes, reports, war time cases, syllabi, course information, student seating charts, and grade...

Howard H. Stevenson papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 82.15
Overview:

The collection covers the career of Professor Howard H. Stevenson, including his teaching and administrative roles at HBS, external consulting activities, and work in the private sector.

Warren Law papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 46.5
Scope and Contents:

The Warren Law papers consist of teaching records including cases taught, annotated case material, case research, newspaper clippings, and a small amount of correspondence related to the case.

Jesse Markham research files

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 52.50.1
Overview:

The Jesse Markham research files cover the years 1955 to 1985 and consists of publication materials. The subjects of the materials fit into Professor Markham's interest areas such as antitrust law and the petroleum industry.

Robert L. Masson papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 53
Scope and Contents: The Robert L. Masson papers consist of correspondence, case research, newspaper clippings, lectures, speeches, class preparation materials, and research project notes. Masson's correspondence dates from the 1935 to 1960 and includes letters written to HBS colleagues, professors at peer institutions, and company executives regarding general finance topics and his research projects. Some of the class preparation materials date from his time as a professor at the University of Michigan....

F. Warren McFarlan papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 50.30.1
Overview:

This collection includes papers of Harvard Business School professor F. Warren McFarlan documenting his research, teaching, and professional activities.

Thomas R. Navin papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 58
Scope and Contents: The papers of HBS Assistant Professor of Business History Thomas R. Navin include correspondence, business history class syllabi, unpublished articles, and HBS cases dating from 1947-1955. The majority of the material is correspondence written to and from Navin to colleagues, business associates, and businessmen. Navin's correspondence relates to his pursuance of research projects, interviews, and primary source materials collected by Baker Library for research purposes. Also includes three...

Calvin Pava papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 68
Overview:

Papers of HBS professor Calvin Pava consist of his research and writing on organization design and planning, or "Sociotechnical Systems Design," and material coming out his teaching and consulting activities in the same field.

Fritz Redlich papers

Collection Identifier: Mss:851 1962-1970 R318
Overview:

This collection holds drafts of Fritz Redlich's publications, citations, and letters to Redlich.

Richard Donham papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 18.100
Scope and Contents: The Richard Donham papers consist of reports on the motion picture industry, iron and steel industry and Anaconda Copper Mining Company while Donham was a student at HBS (MBA 1930). Donham worked as a research assistant after graduation. There is correspondence between Donham, and C.C. Withers, President of American Textiles, Inc. regarding the company's reorganization plans and correspondence with American Smelting & Refining Company regarding a case Donham prepared about the...

Robert Saltonstall papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 79.10
Scope and Contents:

The Robert Saltonstall papers document the short period he served as an administrative officer and lecturer at Harvard Business School. The papers include course preparation materials, annotated HBS case materials, course syllabus, and correspondence with government officials and businesses requesting documentation to augment courses he taught between 1950 and 1953.

Dan Throop Smith papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 81.17
Overview:

The teaching and research records of HBS professor Dan Throop Smith.

Robert E. Stone papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 83
Scope and Contents: The Robert E. Stone papers include materials collected and organized by Stone during his tenure as Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) in conjunction with his appointment as the American co-director of the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Istanbul from 1954 to 1959. The records contain the annual reports written by Stone and submitted to HBS Dean Stanley F. Teele about the Institute's progress, staff meeting minutes,...

Theodore H. Brown papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 9.10
Scope and Contents:

The Theodore H. Brown papers consists of a study prepared by Brown on retirement annunities in 1952. It appears that Brown, who was close to retirement, prepared the study for himself and for his fellow professors.

Charles C. Withers papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 94.7
Scope and Contents: The papers of Charles C. Withers, HBS Lecturer in Business Policy, and President of Towle Manufacturing Company (1950-1957) cover the period from his undergraduate years until his death. The bulk of the material fall within the years of his employment at Towle and HBS. The records contain prospectus, correspondence, teaching material, memoranda, directives, minutes, ephemera, schedules, publications, questionnaires, by-laws, reports, photographs, reviews and speeches. These...

Abraham Zaleznik papers

Collection Identifier: Arch GA 98.5
Overview:

Teaching materials, research, writings, consulting, correspondence, and subject files of Harvard Business School professor Abraham Zaleznik, 1945-2007.