# Prof. George Smith's paper on how companies can learn from their history is featured

1 Faculty News February 11, 2013 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/676984ee-711b-11e2-9b5c-00144feab49a.html#axzz2KbymvTzM) -- "'The challenge,' John Seaman and [George David Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/george-smith), historical and archival consultants, wrote in Harvard Business Review recently, 'is to find in an organisation’s history its usable past'."

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