by Geoffrey Jones - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2005) (B)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri

This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2001 and 2005. Faced with the need to deliver integrated services to corporate clients in 2001, JLL created Corporate Solutions, a group that aimed to draw... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America

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20 Nov 2014
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Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Keywords: by Asli M. Coplan & Geoffrey Jones

March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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Growing Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2008) (C)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri

This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2005 and 2008. Having dismantled its long-standing service-line-oriented structure, JLL created two interdependent groups: Accounts and Markets. Accounts housed... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America

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05 Jul 2006
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Schumpeter’s Plea: Rediscovering History and Relevance in the Study of Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dan Wadhwani

August 2009 (Revised July 2010)
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Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer (2005)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Lucia Menzer Marshall

Peter Roberts, CEO of Jones, Lang, LaSalle (JLL) Americas division, has been charged with expanding the company's presence in its core geographic markets while simultaneously growing its corporate account business. Roberts and his task force have narrowed their options... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Real Estate Industry

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18 Aug 2017
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Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

Keywords: by Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila, and Geoffrey Jones

08 Aug 2006
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Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & R. Daniel Wadhwani

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

Professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna, the book, which is available in India, includes interviews with dozens of business and social leaders culled around the topic of lasting leadership principles. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

that with the first scholarly business history of Modern Turkey. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives was co-edited by Asli M. Colpan, of the Kyoto University, Graduate School of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

community. Chile is in better shape, but has also undergone traumatic ups and down and is now challenged to grow as its major trading partner, China, slows its growth. What went wrong? A new edited volume by View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

you have a major industry that still has lots to reveal. We asked Jones to discuss his research and his new book. Sean Silverthorne: What inspired your interest in the beauty business and its history? View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

In a new book on the origins and impacts of globalization, Harvard Business School's Geoffrey Jones focuses on the role played by a vital but often ignored actor in this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

studied at Harvard Business School. Credit: Bartosz Hadyniak For perspectives on what has been learned so far, HBS Working Knowledge conducted an email interview with four of the key drivers of CEM: Project coordinators Geoffrey Jones,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

environment. It's largely an untold history, Jones says, ignored by both business and environmental historians. Indeed, many people still think that there were few environmental concerns or green businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

While many history departments of American universities prefer to keep business as a separate discipline, HBS entrepreneurship professor Geoffrey Jones encourages the examination of history as a way to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell