by Geoffrey Jones - Publications - Faculty & Research

Platform for Dialogue

co-teaching with several faculty. With Geoffrey Jones, I participated in the provocative and lively MBA course Entrepreneurship & Global Capitalism. This course explored the making of the modern world through rich histories of... View Details

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History-informed Strategy Research: The Promise of History and Historical Research Methods in Advancing Strategy Scholarship

By: Nicholas Argyres, Alfredo De Massis, Nicolai J. Foss, Federico Frattini, Geoffrey Jones and Brian Silverman

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the use of history and historical research methods in strategy research. This article discusses how and why history and historical research methods can enrich theoretical explanations of strategy phenomena. The article... View Details

Keywords: Methodology; Strategy; Business History; Research; History

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01 Mar 2018
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Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

Jones Miller (MBA 2014), cofounder, Mented Cosmetics Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life by Jason Selk and Tom Bartow, with Matthew Rudy “Let’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

Making Sense of Past and Present

Throughout my life as a student, from elementary school to undergrad, I was fond of my history classes. I have always been fascinated by how past events shape our present. I read all of my history books in advance, even those of the... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

2010 to $9.2 billion in 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. In the second quarter of this year, European venture capital firms raised a combined $2.25 billion, 63 percent more than over the same period last year. But that doesn't... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Andrew Kinard

go next?" Much of that immediate future was occupied by seventy-five surgeries and eighteen months of rehabilitation. While recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, however, a chance encounter opened new possibilities. "I... View Details

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Clarissa Quintanilla

campus. After graduation, she worked at Edward Jones “because I was interested in its community-based distribution system.” After two years with the company (working in its Rotational Development Program and in marketing), she married her... View Details

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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Waste as... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis

there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

sculpt your body and help you prevent back pain and sleep better; and a holistic mind-body approach that really works. Faculty Books Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time by Geoffrey... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Turning Point: The Dark Season

illustration by Vahram Muradyan illustration by Vahram Muradyan A few years ago I went through a sort of wilderness experience, where nothing was lining up. I had to sell my car and move in with a roommate... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

Working PapersPlatform Envelopment Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested

leftover whipped cream I’d made for an apple pie—so I put a little in my iced coffee. Now every morning I say, ‘It’s a pandemic, I can have whipped cream in my coffee.’ ” In the queue: From Scratch, based on a memoir by Tembi Locke with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; women in business; COVID-19; film; media; television; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2022
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Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

Points that Challenge Every Company, by Andrew Grove; Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang; Double... View Details

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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Investing for Impact Course Number 6604 Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones Senior Lecturer Emily R. McComb Senior Lecturer Brian Trelstad Senior Lecturer Gerald Chertavian Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Enrollment:... View Details

20 Jul 2017
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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

01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Sep 2004
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Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

high-pitched speaking voice, he made a powerful impression. I next encountered him in March 1944. I was chief of the Third Army’s Test and Inspection Section, and our unit had been ordered overseas. At his headquarters in an elegant estate about 100 miles north of... View Details

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