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.
[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.
[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.