Experts

Hannah Knox Tucker

Fast Facts

  • Assistant professor of history, Copenhagen Business School
  • Member, Centre for Business History
  • Expertise on entrepreneurial and managerial functions, platform businesses, early-stage startups, and business ethics 

Areas Of Expertise

  • Europe
  • Economic Issues
  • Finance and Banking
  • Jobs and Economy
  • Trade

Hannah Knox Tucker is an assistant professor of history in the Department of Business Humanities and Law at the Copenhagen Business School. Her research examines the entrepreneurial and managerial functions of traders in the early-modern Atlantic. Her teaching focuses on entrepreneurship in platform businesses, early-stage startups, and business ethics. 

Tucker's work uses historical and statistical methods to explore how major shifts in business practices have shaped culture and society in the long run. She is a member of the Centre for Business History and runs the historical work package in the Carlsberg Foundation-funded project, "The Entrepreneurial Age: Rethinking Entrepreneurship in Society." 

Tucker has published in the Business History Review and the Journal of Management Inquiry and has written edited volume chapters for Palgrave, Brill, and Oxford (forthcoming). She is working on a book project entitled Maritime Mastery: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic, 1680-1774.