by Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

crowds' breeds convenient conformity and creativity is often lost in the process." At the other end of the intuition-analysis spectrum, R. C. Saxena opined, "I believe intuition ought not to play... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

demand, and supporting infrastructures, including business ecosystems) and, when feasible, the wider institutional, regulatory, and even cultural context that conventional International business literature... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 May 2011
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valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

new book edited by Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan pulls back the covers. Race, Work, and Leadership: New... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Jan 2014
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economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2011
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supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111070-PDF-ENG Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan Geoffrey G. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2011
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These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2013
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Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2012
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profitability, and learning rates. Our model offers a comprehensive approach to understanding the drivers of firm location choices by modeling not only the impact of location View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2012
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his associates and the JV partners. Purchase this supplement:http://hbr.org/search/313019-PDF-ENG Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A) Geoffrey... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

Globalization and Business Applications Globalization in Historical Perspective By: Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This chapter... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2010
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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... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2011
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case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312029-PDF-ENG Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism Geoffrey G. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2014
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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

July 2007 (Revised February 2010)
Case

Saffronart.com: Bidding for Success

By: Mukti Khaire and R. Daniel Wadhwani

Saffronart, a five-year-old online art auction company, leads the market for modern Indian art and now faces competitors in the market it created. Established in 2000 by the wife-and-husband team of Minal and Dinesh Vazirani, Saffronart.com is an innovative online... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Auctions; Industry Growth; Competition; Online Technology; Fine Arts Industry; India

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2011
Other Unpublished Work

Height Taken but Worth Unknown: Valuation as an Institutional Process

By: R. Daniel Wadhwani and Mukti Khaire

Drawing on research from organizational studies, sociology, history, and anthropology, we develop a framework for understanding valuation as an institutional process in markets. We posit that three institutional elements—categories, criteria, and standards—are integral... View Details

Keywords: Interactive Communication; Markets; Standards; Situation or Environment; Perception; Valuation

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11 Mar 2014
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firm profits. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/groupon-2014-03-01.pdf August 2013 Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2004 (Revised June 2008)
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Debating the Expropriation of Mexican Oil

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani

In 1938, the Mexican government expropriated the assets of foreign oil companies. Explores the legal and moral arguments in favor of and against expropriation. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics; Business History; Lawfulness; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Mexico

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