Spring Virtual Seminars: “Business, Institutions, and Regions”
Please save the following dates for the upcoming seminar series organized by Yuan Jia Zheng and Marcel Anduiza (Harvard Business School):
Wednesday, April 9, 12:00–1:30 PM
Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), “Determinants of African Business Performance in Colonial and Post-Colonial West Africa”Friday, April 18, 10:00–11:30 AM
Julia Yongue (Josei University), “Siam Then, Thailand Now: Contextualizing the Emergence of Thai Capitalism through Three Phases of Globalization”Wednesday, April 30, 12:00–1:30 PM
Andrea Lluch (CONICET; National University of La Pampa), “Global Development and International Organizations during the Cold War Era: ILO’s Management Development Programs in Latin America, 1950s-1970s”Wednesday, May 14, 12:00–1:30 PM
Grace Ballor (Bocconi University), “Commerce against the Social Single Market”Wednesday, May 28, 12:00–1:30 PM
Marcel Anduiza (Harvard Business School), “The Manila Galleon: Luxury Trade and the Silk-for-Silver Connection across the Pacific World, XVI-XVIII”Wednesday, June 11, 12:00–1:30 PM
Paloma Fernández Pérez (University of Barcelona), “Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and Multinationals in the Emergence of Urban Clusters of Healthcare in the Spanish Speaking World during the Turn of the 19th Century and the First Third of the 20th Century”The seminars will take place on Zoom. Some sessions will have pre-circulated papers. In order to receive the papers and Zoom link, please RSVP to bhi@hbs.edu. The Zoom link will be circulated in the new year.
Yuan Jia Zheng is the 2024-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History Initiative at HBS. She researches the history of global business with a particular focus on sustainability, especially in the automobile industry in China. She has taught widely on the economic and business history of China and the history of international business. She is currently writing a monograph on multinational investment, technology transfer and the development of organizational capabilities in China’s automobile industry between the 1950s and the 2020s. The book explains how Chinese companies became market leaders in electric vehicles.
Marcel Anduiza is a writer, historian, and foreign affairs analyst. He’s a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School, focusing on comparative regional and international studies in Latin America, U.S.-Mexico relations, and the Americas’ engagement with the East Asia-Pacific Region. He writes about the emergence of a transpacific economy and an international network of cities, regions, and ecologies between Asia and the Americas across the Pacific Basin.
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