Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (338) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 13 of 338 Results →
  • May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World

By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah
This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mine; Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Operations; Management; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; China; Singapore
Related
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition video Play Video duration: 1:32 2024 New Venture Competition Runner-Up, Social Enterprise Track: Trans Health HQ Trans Health HQ is a tool built by the trans community that addresses... View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History
Related
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

expanded the scale and scope of its activities. Though lauded by many experts for its actions, the Fed and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, faced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Green Business; Pollution; Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
Related
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Developing Countries and Economies; Business History; Asia; Latin America; Africa
Related
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

Citation Educators Purchase Related Truelove, Emily, Linda A. Hill, and Lydia Begag. "Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 425-067, February 2025. More Publications Faculty View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

stringent measures to regulate the industry. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51895 Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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,... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

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.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

globalization in the transition from socialism to capitalism. Renewing Unilever Transformation and Tradition by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 01 Feb 2017
  • News

New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Professor Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

one of 100 Black Board Members Making a Difference by Board Prospects in 2024. Archie L. Jones : Received the 2024 Dr. James I. Cash Advancing Pathways Award. Olivia S. Kim : Winner of the 2024 Best Paper... View Details
  • 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

or to "body fit in"? This session will 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... View Details
  • Web

Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

recommended reading lists Hand-picked resources for the questions and concerns raised by the Rock 100 founders at the Summit can be found at the links below: B2B Marketing Aligning Strategy View Details
  • 03 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series

developed by HBS Professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna. To date, the CEM project has conducted deep and... View Details