by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2016
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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

01 Mar 2014
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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 Jun 2022
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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

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

23 Mar 2010
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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

02 Aug 2018
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Our world is changing – but not as rapidly as people think

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

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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

01 Dec 2019
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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

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

01 Mar 2017
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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

01 Dec 2017
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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 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

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,... View Details

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

2021
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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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2016
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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 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

2020
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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