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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

new book edited by Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan pulls back the covers. Race, Work, and Leadership: New... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 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
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

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
  • 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
  • 29 Apr 2013
  • News

The fragrance series – Part 3

  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

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
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

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
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

enhance the emotional payoff of charitable initiatives. 2013 pub Learning by Supplying By: Alcácer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley Abstract—Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Web

Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India - Creating Emerging Markets

growth of business history in India. Geoffrey Jones (Business History Initiative) discussed the Creating Emerging Markets project and how the oral histories being generated... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

profitability, and learning rates. Our model offers a comprehensive approach to understanding the drivers of firm location choices by modeling not only the impact of location View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

relationship between the successful use of humor and status is mediated by perceptions of confidence and competence. The successful use of humor signals confidence View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

campus. He was, in that way, inspiring. Geoffrey G. Jones Geoffrey G. Jones is the current Isidor Straus Professor of Business History View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

his associates and the JV partners. Purchase this supplement:http://hbr.org/search/313019-PDF-ENG Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A) Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2018 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This case describes the career of the iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel who created a transformational business during the first half of the 20th century. Beginning in her early adulthood, Chanel leveraged relationships with acquaintances, friends, and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Biography; Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Brands and Branding; Ethics; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Globalization and Business Applications Globalization in Historical Perspective By: Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne