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An Appraisal on “Tracing the Early History of IB Teaching through the Lens of the Harvard Business School”

In: The Historical Evolution of International Business

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  • Geoffrey Jones

    (Harvard Business School)

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This chapter is exciting because it shows that teaching, especially at the Harvard Business School, played an important role in the early development of the discipline of International Business. The decision by Harvard Business School in 1973 to close the International Business group shows the fragility of non-mainstream subject area in a business school context. Business schools are driven by fads. Larger subjects and their faculty are gatekeepers to appointments and promotions, and shut out and marginalize smaller, newer and more innovative subject areas in favor of incumbent vested interests. Business schools are places where academic entrepreneurship goes to die.

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  • Geoffrey Jones, 2025. "An Appraisal on “Tracing the Early History of IB Teaching through the Lens of the Harvard Business School”," Springer Books, in: Lilac Nachum & Attila Yaprak (ed.), The Historical Evolution of International Business, chapter 0, pages 227-232, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-86133-8_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-86133-8_10
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