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- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
change an industry that starts as extractive to producing externalities that foster development.” In the case of Costa Rica’s ecotourism industry, Giacomin reviews earlier analysis by HBS history Professor Geoffrey Jones and research... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
campus. He was, in that way, inspiring. Geoffrey G. Jones Geoffrey G. Jones is the current Isidor Straus Professor of Business History and serves as co-editor of the Business History Review. Al's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely blockbusters, more intense competition in areas such as streaming and esports, and more industry consolidation? Drawing on dozens of recent case studies, Professor... View Details
History's Guiding Light
by Professor Geoffrey Jones. This seminar provided me with a foundation on the role of business in advanced and emerging countries’ economic trajectories, from Medici Italy to China and India in today’s global context, as well as direct... View Details
Leading with the Long View
As an undergraduate, I studied liberal arts. Coming to HBS, I wanted to learn fundamental business content, like finance and accounting. I was really surprised to come across the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course taught by Professor View Details
Expanding Horizons
enabled me to see issues that I have studied as a historian in new ways. Often, these conversations led me to ask new questions in my research. I particularly benefited from hearing how MBA students understood and responded to business... View Details
- Profile
Colt Stander
Chances are there haven’t been many MBA candidates who have designed eyeglasses for Nickelodeon and Geoffrey Beene, or the mobile console for a micro-ablation tool used in surgical suites. “I’ve had the unusual experience,” Colt Stander... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
assistant to Geoffrey Canada, CEO of Harlem Children's Zone (HCF). "They take a holistic approach to services, from cradle to college," Kwame says. "With the Zone, I did a wide range of things from consulting on education... View Details
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Rhodes- Krop f , Associate Professor of Business Administration Mike Roberts , Senior Lecturer Rudina Sese ri , Partner, Fairhaven Capital; HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Howard Stevenson , Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Participant... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012).... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
solely a product problem. If you try to sell what you can't deliver, you get in trouble. If you try to deliver what a mainstream buyer will not ultimately buy, you get in trouble. So the issue is how to get started as you go to market. Many of these ideas are explored... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
Professor Geoffrey Jones, faculty chair of the Business History Initiative, and Chilean shipping entrepreneur Sven von Appen (HBS AMP 76). "I was talking to Sven about the role of history at HBS," Jones says, adding that von Appen... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
and Latin America. Why Azmi? “India has the world’s largest cinema industry, and it exercises an enormous cultural impact within the country,” says Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History. “Shabana Azmi has long... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
four adventurous kids across all seven colors of an amazing rainbow to see how all colors stand and shine better together. We learn from nature that our own Human Rainbow is much the same because: With our own special mix of colors and... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
(former FCC head), Geoffrey Moore (author of Crossing the Chasm), Rick Rashid (MS Research), our own Clay Christensen, and many others. It was a very exciting several days, with lots of energetic interaction. Many of the participants... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Far as the Eye Can See: A History of Seeing by Susan M. Denham (MBA 1993) The History Press From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
being one third of the human causes of climate change–along with heat-absorbing greenhouse gasses released by fossil fuel combustion and deforestation–it receives less than one percent of attention from the media, funders, governments, and NGOs. “It was inspiring to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
struggles, which cause the demise of so many family businesses? The authors describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer detailed advice on how to develop and implement those practices. Scudder’s Gorge by... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
financing. A great number of studies and researchers have documented such effects. Professor Geoffrey Jones’s new book, Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship, documents systematically some of the early business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurship? Will India be able to achieve the target of a $5 trillion GDP in the foreseeable future? And finally, what about our pathways to achieve social harmony and see ourselves emerge as proud Indians in a thriving democracy?... View Details