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Editors' Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

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Business History Review , Volume 82 , Issue 2: A Special Issue on Alfred D. Chandler Jr. , Summer 2008 , pp. 203 - 206
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References

1 The Web site, www.hbs.edu/businesshistory, provides up-to-date information on the business history group at the School. Each of the 206 members of the faculty at Harvard Business School receives a copy of the journal.

2 The History of Standard Oil Company was coauthored with Ralph W. Hidy and George S. Gibb.

3 Electronic contents are also available on ABI/Inform.

4 In a 1962 article in the journal, entitled “What is Business History?” the HBS business historian Arthur Cole predicted that business history would have a “bright future” if it could appeal to students of both management and history. Cole, Arthur H., “What Is Business History?” Business History Review 36 (Spring 1962): 98–106CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 BHR has a long tradition of publishing such articles. See, for instance, Cusumano, Michael A., Mylonadis, Yiorgos, and Rosenbloom, Richard S., “Strategic Maneuvering and Mass-Market Dynamics: The Triumph of VHS over Beta” (Spring 1992): 51–94Google Scholar; and Christensen, Clayton M., “The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of Commercial and Technological Turbulence” (Winter 1993): 531–88.Google Scholar

6 Among current prominent examples are thirteen HBS faculty with Ph.D.s in history; Copenhagen Business School has seven full-time business historians.

7 BHR was a pioneer in publishing articles on the history of globalization. See, to name a few, Wilkins, Mira, “An American Enterprise Abroad: American Radiator Company in Europe, 1895–1914” (Autumn 1969): 326–46Google Scholar; and the groundbreaking special issue from 1974 on multinational enterprise (Autumn 1974), featuring an article by Franko, Lawrence G., “The Origins of Multinational Manufacturing by Continental European Firms,”CrossRefGoogle Scholar and another by Stopford, John M., “The Origins of British-Based Multinational Manufacturing Enterprises.”CrossRefGoogle Scholar The Spring 1970 issue of BHR, which was devoted to “Japanese Entrepreneurship,” included “Entrepreneurial Studies in Japan: An Introduction,” by Henry Rosovsky and Kozo Yamamura; “The Organizational Structure of Mitsubishi and Mitsui Zaibatsu, 1868–1922: A Comparative Study,” by Hidemasa Morikawa; and “Evolution of the Japanese System of Employer-Employee Relations, 1868–1945,” by Robert Evans Jr.

8 Chandler, Alfred D., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass., 1962), 7.Google Scholar

9 Ibid.