Publications

Teaching Note for [808133]. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Brands and Branding; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Business Subsidiaries; Product Launch; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Russia

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 Geoffrey View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Modern World by Geoffrey Jones (Edward Elgar Publishing) Individual firms have rarely been identified as significant independent actors in the history of globalization and... View Details

01 Aug 2014
News

Cross-Class Connection

strategies used by HBS alumni with experience leading their successful reunion campaigns. So he turned to Alan Jones (AJ), who has been involved in HBS fundraising since graduating, and together they forged... View Details

Teaching Interest

Overview

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

July 2005 (Revised April 2007)
Teaching Note

Brazil at the Wheel (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-804-080). View Details

Keywords: Brazil

July 2005
Teaching Note

Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-Era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-804-027). View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Globalized Firms and Management; South Africa

July 2005 (Revised August 2007)
Teaching Note

Making China Beautiful: Shiseido and the China Market (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-805-003). View Details

Keywords: China

Person Page

Media

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Research Summary

A History of Green Entrepreneurship

This research recovers the history of the entrepreneurs and firms who developed green or “sustainable” businesses, identifies the multiple motivations behind their strategies, explores the clustering of green business in specific locations, and shows how the concept of... View Details

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

(Study 1). Product priming also increases the speed with which product-relevant individuals come to mind (Study 2). In Study 3, consumers felt subjectively closer to networks primed by specific products, and this felt closeness predicted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education

By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang

For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details

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November 2022
Teaching Plan

Ken Durham and Unilever as a 'Multi-Local Multinational'

By: Geoffrey Jones and Mona Rahmani

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 808-025. View Details

December 2018
Teaching Plan

John Chambers, Cisco and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean

October 2018
Teaching Plan

Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean

October 2017 (Revised October 2017)
Teaching Plan

Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin

Teaching Plan for HBS No. 805-010. View Details

October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
Teaching Plan

Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph

By: Geoffrey Jones and Jessica Burch

2011
Book

El impacto histórico de la globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y empresarios [The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Enterprises and Entrepreneurs]

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch

This book presents new research on the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile. The authors focus on the role of entrepreneurs and firms. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Research; Argentina; Chile