Hult International Business School Boston, Undergraduate Campus

HIS260 - History of American Business

An overview of the history of business in the United States, from colonial times to contemporary globalization.

Lectures cover business in the colonial period, development of a market economy, the conflict between free labor and slavery, emergence of a national market, global economic collapse in the 1930s, war and business, contemporary globalization, and the rise of stateless capital. Guest speakers, films, and field trips to talks and gatherings at local universities such as the MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, Boston University Questrom School of Business, Boston College Carroll School of Management, the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, and the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University, in addition to the graduate program at Hult, supplement lectures and discussions.