NANCY KOEHN: The 1920s were a very important decade in the lives of consumer society in America. Many of those goods, from hoop skirts to candy bars to cereal, had been around for several decades by ...

Nancy Koehn, professor at Harvard Business School, discusses consolidation in the U.S. retail sector. The owner of Macy's and Bloomingdale's and its main competitor are thinking about merging. Koehn ...

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School professor and historian, explains how socially responsible business dates back to modern capitalism’s founding era. Harvard ...

We live in a time when confidence in leaders — whether in government, business, or religion — is failing. There is growing unease that everything is at stake. Long-formed international ...