Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and a Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He edits the Business History Review with Geoff Jones.
Walter specializes in business, labor, and economic history, and is the author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters (2013) and Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (2004). He is currently writing a history of large American companies from 1920 to 1980. He was formerly a Newcomen Post-Doctoral Fellow in Business History and a Trustee of the Business History Conference.
