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- 2018
- Working Paper
Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This working paper highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of...
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Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-056, November 2018.
- Article
Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of...
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Keywords:
Oral History;
Corruption;
Business History;
Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Business and Government Relations;
Government and Politics;
Asia;
Africa;
Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets." Enterprise & Society 20, no. 1 (March 2019): 19–32.
- 1998
- Book
The Multinational Traders
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history and theory of multinational trading companies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment flows in the world economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The empirical...
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Keywords:
Company History;
Trade;
Globalization;
Books;
Organizational Structure;
Perspective;
Diversification;
Theory;
Asia;
Europe;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey, ed. The Multinational Traders. Routledge International Studies in Business History. London: Routledge, 1998.
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry is the first serious attempt to trace the history of the $330 billion global beauty industry and its large collection of fascinating entrepreneurs...
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- 03 Jul 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
The Controversial History of United Fruit
- September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
FJ Management Inc.
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO...
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Keywords:
Turnaround;
Company History;
Family Business;
Transformation;
Volatility;
Change Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Cash Flow;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financial Liquidity;
Financial Management;
Governance;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Crisis Management;
Negotiation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Family Ownership;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Energy Industry;
Travel Industry;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Utah
Applegate, Lynda M., and Matthew G. Preble. "FJ Management Inc." Harvard Business School Case 818-028, September 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
While many history departments of American universities prefer to keep business as a separate discipline, HBS entrepreneurship professor Geoffrey Jones encourages the examination of history as a way to...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- March 2017 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
Edwin Land: The Art and Science of Innovation
By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher Stanton and Matthew Preble
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Polaroid first invented—and then continuously reinvented—the field of instant photography. Under the leadership of its mercurial founder Edwin Land, the company regularly released new instant cameras and films, often...
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Keywords:
Instant Photography;
Company History;
Change Management;
Disruption;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Entrepreneurship;
Business History;
Innovation Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation and Management;
Intellectual Property;
Patents;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Product Launch;
Product Development;
Chemical Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, Christopher Stanton, and Matthew Preble. "Edwin Land: The Art and Science of Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 817-107, March 2017. (Revised May 2018.)
- 2006
- Chapter
The History of Corporate Ownership in China: State Patronage, Company Legislation, and the Issue of Control
By: William Goetzmann and Elisabeth Koll
Keywords:
History;
Governance Controls;
Laws and Statutes;
Ownership;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations;
China
Goetzmann, William, and Elisabeth Koll. "The History of Corporate Ownership in China: State Patronage, Company Legislation, and the Issue of Control." Chap. 2 in A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers, edited by Randall K. Morck. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- May 2013 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
McKinsey & Company
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In early 2013 the leaders of McKinsey & Co., were reflecting, as they did periodically, on the path forward for their firm. Founded in Chicago in 1926 by James O. McKinsey (Mac), with only a small staff in one office, the firm had grown to be a global company with more...
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Keywords:
CONSULTING Firms;
McKinsey;
Professional Service Firm;
Marvin Bower;
Strategy;
Governance;
Consulting Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Kathleen Durante. "McKinsey & Company." Harvard Business School Case 413-109, May 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
- 14 Feb 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
The Delicious History of Hershey's Chocolate
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 2020
- Working Paper
Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968
By: Amar Bhidé
This case history analyzes how the founders of McKinsey & Co. built one of the world's leading management consulting firms by developing a “system” of professional norms, approach to serving clients, personnel policies, organization, governance, and ownership. The...
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Keywords:
McKinsey & Co.;
Company History;
Professional Norms;
Vision;
Organizations;
Business History;
Business Model;
Strategy;
Consulting Industry
Bhidé, Amar. "Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 95-010, January 1995. (Revised July 2020.)
- October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
OAO YUKOS Oil Company
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joshua N. Rosenbaum
This case presents the history and current position of Russia's second-largest oil company, YUKOS, as it seeks listing on the NYSE as an ADR and attempts to rid itself from a punishing "governance discount" by the capital markets. This is a company with a history of...
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Keywords:
Stocks;
Capital Markets;
Corporate Governance;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Energy Sources;
Energy Industry;
Russia
Salter, Malcolm S., and Joshua N. Rosenbaum. "OAO YUKOS Oil Company." Harvard Business School Case 902-021, October 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Cephalosporins—Fighting Hospital Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes the development of three generations of cephalosporins – antibiotics that have significantly reduced hospital infections. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) Early (pre-cephalosporin) antibiotics were developed in the first half of the 20th...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Invention;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Cephalosporins—Fighting Hospital Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-133, July 2020. (Revised May 2024.)
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
a collection of interesting articles across the history of the paper. There were already a few publications on more specific subjects: For example, Floyd Norris, a well-respected columnist at the Times, edited a book on the View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that...
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by Julia Hanna
- August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Gazprom (A): Energy and Strategy in Russian History
By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Sogomon Tarontsi and Alexander Jorov
Critics have accused Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer, of eschewing market principles in favor of the foreign policy priorities of the Russian government, ever since the energy giant cut off the supply to Ukraine in January of 2006. The purported...
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Keywords:
History;
International Relations;
Trade;
Energy Industry;
Russia;
Soviet Union;
Ukraine;
Europe
Abdelal, Rawi E., Sogomon Tarontsi, and Alexander Jorov. "Gazprom (A): Energy and Strategy in Russian History." Harvard Business School Case 709-008, August 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
biographer Richard S. Tedlow puts it, Grove was "one of the master managers in the history of American business." A new biography, Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, will debut next week, written by Tedlow, the Class...
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