N. S. B. Gras

Norman Scott Brien Gras (1884–1956), known as N. S. B. Gras, was a Canadian professor at the Harvard Business School who invented the academic discipline of business history.

Early life

Gras was born in 1884 in Toronto, Ontario.^[1] He graduated from the University of Western Ontario.^[1] He went on to receive a PhD in economics from Harvard University.^[1]

Career

Gras taught economics at the University of Minnesota.^[2]

Gras was appointed as Professor of Business History by Dean Wallace Brett Donham in 1927.^[2][3] He invented this new academic discipline, which only existed as his job title at the time.^[2] From the outset, Gras made sure to draw a distinction between economic history and business history.^[3] For Gras, economic history failed to focus on the role of the businessman as well as the role of business administration.^[3] Instead, the main goal of business history was to highlight those two components in the history of corporations and business developments.^[3]

Gras served as the president of the Business History Foundation.^[4] He was the founder and editor of the Journal of Economic and Business History.^[4] He was also the editor of the Harvard Studies of Business History.^[4]

Works

• Gras, N. S. B. (1918). The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional and Economic History of the Customs from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  OCLC 3077330
  .
• Gras, N. S. B. (1922). An Introduction to Economic History. New York: Harper & Bros.
  OCLC 4625645
  .
• Gras, N. S. B. (1925). A History of Agriculture in Europe and America. New York: F.S. Crofts & Co.
  OCLC 2138695
  .
• Gras, N. S. B. (1930). Industrial Evolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  OCLC 1187223
  .
• Gras, N. S. B.; Pforzheimer, Carl H. (1937). The Massachusetts First National Bank of Boston, 1784-1934. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  OCLC 2490681
  .
• Gras, N. S. B.; Larson, Henrietta M. (1939). Casebook in American History. New York: F.S. Crofts & Co.
  OCLC 4139275
  .
• Gras, N. S. B. (1939). Business and Capitalism: An Introduction to Business History. New York: F.S. Crofts & Co.
  OCLC 2167414
  .

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