Geoffrey See - Publications - Faculty & Research

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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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

design of windows into and out of the organization’s operations—to help customers understand the value being added and to allow employees to see the impact of their work. How to Not Bankrupt Your Family Professor Lauren H. Cohen + More... View Details

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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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

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

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

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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

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

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

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

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

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

Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

never lose sight of what’s going on around you. Watch the world. Be interested in all that is new in fashion, consumption, products, and services. Do not watch TV. Try to see if there are businesses that you can also handle on the Web or... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Mar 2023
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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