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- 2014
- Book
Business History
By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones
This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A wide-ranging editorial introduction describes the...
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Friedman, Walter A. and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
work, highlighting recent psychological investigations that explore the emergence, practice, and implications of colorblindness. We conclude by discussing alternative strategies for managing diversity,...
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Carmen Nobel
- Fall 2017
- Article
The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets
By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones
This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
History;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Business History;
Asia;
Latin America;
Africa
Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones. "The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets." Special Issue on Methodologies. Business History Review 91, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 537–569.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s
By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War II. In contrast, this study reveals...
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Sustainability;
Green Business;
Pollution;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business History;
Chemical Industry;
Germany;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-018, August 2013.
- 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20
Industry Author: Geoffrey Jones Publication: Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Abstract The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey By: Coplan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This working paper examines the origins and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
To better understand the prospects for future entrepreneurial success in sustainable industries, Professor Geoffrey Jones looks to the past. In his chapter in the new book Green Capitalism?, for instance,...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52406 January–March 2017 Enterprise & Society Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000 By: Jones, G., and Andrew View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311099-PDF-ENG Vehbi Koc and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group Geoffrey Jones and Asli M....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
in health care and the significant challenges that remain in realizing its full potential. Slides Deeply Responsible Business Leaders in History Professor Geoffrey G. Jones +...
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Harvard Business School
wealth in urban communities. Frank S. Jones MBA 1957 In 1971, Frank Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and became the...
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- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
PublicationsRenewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:Istanbul: Is Bankasi Kultur Yayinlari, 2010, Turkish ed. Abstract Unilever's brands can now be found in one out...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
more deliberate and slower pace of product development and approval that is typical in healthcare. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810143-PDF-ENG The Guggenheims View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
organization's skills and culture as the vehicle to produce improved performance. This is by necessity a longer-term strategy. Andrew Sigler, CEO of Champion International (now...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
globalization in the transition from socialism to capitalism. Renewing Unilever Transformation and Tradition by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University...
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- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
lie in research by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. Power from Sunshine: A Business History of Solar EnergyThis paper by View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
provide you the opportunity to reflect on our standards of perfection, the price of success, and its relationship to the current mental health crisis in schools and workplaces. View Details