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- 13 Oct 2017
- HBS Seminar
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
- 13 Apr 2022
- HBS Seminar
Geoffrey Jones & Tarun Khanna, HBS
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
as a result, but also avoiding disasters. The ice cream and other foods businesses were built patiently by the acquisition of one local firm after another, and their melding into the Unilever model. Following the National Starch... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
excluded from the Communist world. In the twenty years after 1945 the European colonial empires were dismantled. In some cases, decolonization was followed by an aggressive reaction against the businesses of the former colonial power, and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
locations, like Brazil, India, Nigeria, and Turkey. The story of Unilever in the United States provides rich new empirical evidence on critical issues relating to the functioning of multinationals and their impact.— Geoffrey View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
records and other, unconventional, records are being used by one speaker to uncover the scale of their activities, and argue that basically China already had an entrepreneurial class ready and waiting when Deng began opening China.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In this excerpt taken from the chapter entitled "From Trade to Investment," HBS visiting professor Geoffrey Jones traces the transition of the British trading companies from purely trading... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 14 Dec 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
cooking. About the Authors Lena Ye is a member of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2020. Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the Business History... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 22 Aug 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 24 Mar 2023
- HBS Seminar
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
- 29 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 08 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones