Walter Friedman

Walter Friedman is Professor of International Business and Business History Thomas K. McCraw Fellow at Harvard Business School

He is 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.

Email address: wfriedman@hbs.edu

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