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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
    • 02 Aug 2018
    • News

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

    • 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
    • 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," View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 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
    • 2020
    • Chapter

    Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

    By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details
    Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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    • 11 Feb 2014
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    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
    • 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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    • 24 Jan 2017
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    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
    • 22 Dec 2015
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    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
    • 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

    • 28 Jan 2014
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    First Look: January 28

    economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 May 2011
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    First Look: May 17

    valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Feb 2012
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    First Look: Feb. 21

      PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Apr 2013
    • News

    The fragrance series – Part 3

    • 10 Sep 2013
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    First Look: September 10

    environmental sustainability could provide an opportunity to create value for the firm by delivering both commercial and reputational benefits. Download working paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2012
    • Book

    The Rise of the Modern Firm

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman
    This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives and the firms they... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Economy; Business History; Archives; Contracts; Theory
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    • 02 Aug 2011
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    First Look: August 2

    These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies - Creating Emerging Markets

    Colombia), Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Tarun Khanna (Harvard Business School). The online conference was organized by CEM Faculty Co-Chairs Tarun Khanna View Details