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Ciclo di seminari: Business History Fall Seminar, Monday afternoons from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, 3 ottobre- 14 novembre 2022

Si segnala il ciclo di seminari: “Business and Inequality.” The meetings will take place, via Zoom, on Mondays from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (Eastern Time). Papers will be available one week before each session. 

 The seminar is organized by Geoff Jones and Melanie Sheehan, HBS.  

October 3  William Lazonick, UMass Lowell  “Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the US Corporation”  

October 17 Quinn Slobodian, HBS and Wellesley  “The Ethno-Economy: Peter Brimelow’s Short Leap from Financial Journalism to the Alt-Right”  

October 24 Kari Zimmerman, University of St. Thomas  “Strategic Entrepreneurship: Businesswomen and Brazilian Economic Development, 1870-1910”  

October 31 Thomas Fetzer, Central European University “How Transnational Challenges Rekindle National Allegiances: European Labor Organizations and US Car Multinationals in the Post-1945 Period”  

November 7  ​Diana Kim, Georgetown University”A Most Durable Inequality: Caste and Untouchable Labor across Post-World War Two Industrializing Asia”  

November 14  Kendra Boyd, Rutgers University”Shifting Economic Landscapes: African American Migrant Entrepreneurs in Interwar Detroit, Michigan”  

Please send an email to bhi@hbs.edu if you’d like to attend one or more of these Zoom meetings (if you have not already done so).  

For more information about these events, see:  https://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/events.  

Business History Initiativebhi@hbs.edu