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Business History: Retrospect and Prospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Henrietta M. Larson
Henrietta M. Larson
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Business history as a separate field of academic study and research came into being twenty years ago this autumn. At its beginning it was little more than a name, but in those twenty years notable progress has been made in the development of research and teaching in the history of business. Basic research in business records has created a considerable fund of information. Wide preliminary explorations of the field have been made and a systematic concept of business genesis and evolution has been formulated. Courses of instruction in business history, whether nominal or real, have been established in several American universities. And increasingly over the years business men have been taking an interest in the subject.

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Review Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1947 , pp. 173 - 199
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1947

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1 At this point the reader, if he wishes to avoid an involved presentation of the intellectual but somewhat remote background of the inception of business history, might be advised to turn to p. 182.

2 For further discussion of this matter, see the author's article entitled “Danger in Business History,” which appeared in the spring issue of the Harvard Business Review in 1944.