Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets and political economy. Her current book manuscript examines the expansion and regulation of securities markets in nineteenth-century France during a period of pronounced economic and technological dynamism. Her archival research integrates the perspectives of state actors, brokers, bankers, police, jurists, investors, and financial journalists to produce a multifaceted account of how modern society and its institutions are transformed by financialization.
Professor Robertson received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award and the 2023 Charles M. Williams Teaching Award. She earned her Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, together with an M.A. in history. As an undergraduate, she studied history and mathematics at Wesleyan University. Before her graduate training, she worked as a research analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York.
