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    Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

    In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
    • September 2022
    • Article

    Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality

    By: Valeria Giacomin and Geoffrey Jones
    This article discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States, and has... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Foundations; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Values and Beliefs; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    El Dorado Lost: Local Elites, Real Estate and the Education Business in China

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
    This working paper examines the evolving, complex and multifaceted relationship between the real estate industry and the education sector in China. The current crises in the private education and real estate sectors caused by policy shifts reflect the inter-meshing of... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Policy; Government and Politics; Economic Sectors; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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    • 01 Jun 2022
    • News

    June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

    Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken with iconic leaders in India who have... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 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 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... View Details
    • 02 Aug 2018
    • News

    Our world is changing – but not as rapidly as people think

    • 11 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 11

    its effect was quantitatively dominated by inequality-raising effects of population growth. The land distribution program lowered landlessness, but this was partly offset by targeting failures View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 23

    interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf "Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective Author: Geoffrey... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

    developments. The Case Method Miracle by Anne Jones (MBA 1997) Crimson Square Press “Socrates created it. Harvard Business School perfected it. We parent with it; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Kids get grit... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

    work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries that often are... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    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,... View Details
    • 2021
    • Chapter

    International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Teresa da Silva Lopes
    This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of international business over the long-run as well as the strategies of MNEs. It highlights how strategies became more complex over time with MNEs moving from being coordinators of resources and managers of... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational; International Business; Internalization; Globalization; Theory; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America
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    • 01 Mar 2017
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

    via a variety of literary, cinematic, and historical references. His unexpected insight, humor, and irony offer a new perspective on the true moral foundation of finance. Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From... View Details
    • 22 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 22, 2015

    demand, and supporting infrastructures, including business ecosystems) and, when feasible, the wider institutional, regulatory, and even cultural context that conventional International business literature... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

    January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework

    By: Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
    This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how historical models of change can contribute to theory and research on the competitive advantage of firms during periods of rapid innovation. Focusing on... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Dynamic Capabilities; Innovation; Temporality; Context; Microfoundations; Business History; Competitive Advantage; Change; Innovation and Invention
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    • 28 Jun 2016
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    June 28, 2016

    businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Nov 2020
    • News

    Belgium’s reckoning with a brutal history in Congo

    • Web

    Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling - MBA

    Bollywood, for Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, a class taught by the inimitable Geoffrey Jones . And I did... View Details