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- 18 Jul 2017
- News
Harvard Business School: Beauty Decoded
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
graduates to make broader career choices based on their desired impact rather than their debts—be it by returning to their home region, working in the social or public sectors, or pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. Abby View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Business Groups in Historical Perspectives
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Management Skills;
Emerging Markets;
Alliances;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Advantage;
Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups in Historical Perspectives." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global
the MENA region: Adib AlZamil (Saudi Arabia), Amina Laraki Slaoui (Morocco), and Badreddine Ouali (Tunisia). The Creating Emerging Markets project is led by Professors Geoffrey...
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- May 2017 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman
By: Geoffrey Jones and Snigdha Sur
This case examines the career of Raj Kapoor, the legendary Bollywood filmmaker of the postwar decades. It explores how Kapoor built RK studios after 1948 by releasing a series of movies that combined romance with social messages focused on the fate of the common man in...
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Keywords:
Film Entertainment;
History;
Personal Development and Career;
Social Issues;
Gender;
Problems and Challenges;
Values and Beliefs;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
India;
Soviet Union
Jones, Geoffrey, and Snigdha Sur. "Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman." Harvard Business School Case 317-100, May 2017. (Revised April 2020.)
- Website
Creating Emerging Markets
By: Geoffrey Jones
Harvard Business School has an on-going program to conduct in-depth interviews with top business leaders who have created and managed businesses in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America over the last four decades. These interviews, many lasting several...
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Jones, Geoffrey. Creating Emerging Markets. http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/emerging-markets/Pages/default.aspx.
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like...
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- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Learning from a Different Past
- Web
Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction....
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- Web
Events - Creating Emerging Markets
conference, organized by Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna, focused on the intersection of oral history, business, and the Global South, offering a...
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- Article
B Corps: Can It Remake Capitalism in Japan?
By: Geoffrey Jones
This article examines the B Corporation movement that originated in the United States in 2006. The founders sought to create a new type of company whose governance structure mandated them to consider financial, social and environmental performance. A certification...
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Keywords:
Corporate Responsibility;
Sustainability;
B Corporations;
Stakeholder Capitalism;
Governance;
Organizational Structure;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Japan
Jones, Geoffrey. "B Corps: Can It Remake Capitalism in Japan?" Keizaikei [Kanto Gakuin Journal of Economics and Management] 284 (November 2021): 1–12.
- March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
In Search of Global Regulation
By: Geoffrey Jones and Mona Rahmani
The history of the international regulation of global capitalism is surveyed, addressing the challenges facing firms confronting international, national, and regional regulation. Follows the history of global regulation after 1914, from the League of Nations;...
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Keywords:
History;
Multinational Firms and Management;
International Relations;
Laws and Statutes;
Corporate Governance;
Business and Government Relations
Jones, Geoffrey, and Mona Rahmani. "In Search of Global Regulation." Harvard Business School Case 822-122, March 2022. (Revised April 2022.)
- Web
Leadership - Faculty & Research
and sustainability. That's the central and animating theme of "The Rise of HR: Wisdom from 73 Thought Leaders," a new anthology published by the HR Certification Institute....
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- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Ideal Beauty: An Imagined State of Mind
- Web
Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets
responsibility in more developed markets? In this video, Professors Tarun Khanna and Geoffrey Jones discuss a thematic paper using CEM data, published in the Strategic...
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- 2011
- Working Paper
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This working paper examines corporate strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a German-based pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks...
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Keywords:
History;
Risk Management;
Business History;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Corporate Strategy;
Intellectual Property;
Cooperation;
Business and Government Relations;
Germany
Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-003, July 2011.
- Web
General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
the Year in 2020. Hubert Joly : Named Retailer of the Year by Forbes in 2016. Geoffrey G. Jones : Selected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2020 for...
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- Web
Faculty & Research - Leadership
who influence outcomes by the tone they set, how they conduct themselves, and how they interact with their peers. Their job... September 9, 2024 Article strategy+business Ten Questions for a Winning...
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- November 2017
- Article
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
Emerging markets are characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69...
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Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna. "Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 11 (November 2017): 2147–2167. (Video Abstract.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
By: Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
Emerging markets are characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69...
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Keywords:
Institutional Voids;
Intangible Resources;
Business Ventures;
Business or Company Management;
Business History;
Reputation;
Emerging Markets
Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna. "Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-060, January 2017.