Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and an honorary PhD from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He taught previously at the London School of Economics, and Cambridge and Reading Universities in the UK, and at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He has held Visiting Professorships at Gakushuin University, Tokyo, and Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, and is an Affiliate Professor of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Elsewhere at Harvard, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Harvard Center for African Studies, the Faculty Committee of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and on the Policy Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Professor Jones researches the evolution, impact and responsibility of global business. He has published on the history of global business, specializing both in consumer products, including beauty and fashion, and services such as banking, reinsurance and commodity trading. He has written extensively on the business history of emerging markets, especially in Latin America, South Asia and Turkey, and launched and co-ordinates the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project at the Harvard Business School. Professor Jones developed and teaches the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course, which explores the role of entrepreneurship in the globalization cycles of the last two hundred years, in the second year of the MBA program. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Professor Jones's books include Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000), Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to Twenty First Century (Oxford University Press, 2005), Renewing Unilever. Transformation and Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2005), (edited with Jonathan Zeitlin) the Oxford Handbook of Business History (Oxford University Press, 2008). and Beauty Imagined (Oxford University Press, 2010), which provides the first history of the global beauty industry from a business perspective. His recent research has focussed on the ecological and social impact and responsibility of business. Recent books include Profits and Sustainability: A Global History of Green Entrepreneurship (Oxford University Press, 2017), which provides a global history of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century until the present day, and Varieties of Green Business (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018), which examines variations in the nature of green business between industries and nations, and over time. He has two books in press which will be published in 2022. Leadership to Last (co-authored with Tarun Khanna, Penguin Random House) examines the nature of business leadership in India. Profits or Purpose. The Long Search for Deep Responsibility in Business (Harvard University Press) looks historically and globally how a small number of business leaders have sought to combine profits and social purpose in their businesses. The book explores what socially and ecologically responsible businesses have really looked like, examines whether they can work, what trade-offs have to be made, and asks whether they are even desirable.
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A History of Green Entrepreneurship
The book explores the phenomenon of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century to present day. The book spans between various industries such as organic food, natural beauty, clean energy, sustainable finance and eco-tourism. It explores the motivations of green entrepreneurs and how they built their businesses, and asks if historical experience gives cause for optimism concerning whether business can save the planet. The story shows how hard it has been to reconcile profits and sustainability, but it also highlights how through a willingness to be “crazy” and to think outside the box, green entrepreneurs opened up new ways of thinking about sustainability. Yesterday’s crazies turn out to be the historical origins of the sustainable world of the future. Also available as an audio book and e-book.
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The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Estée Lauder, Chanel, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book takes an in-depth look at the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and New York.
Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again. The book shows how global brands swept into China, Brazil and Russia, but at the same time, these brands had to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.
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- Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2020. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time. Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. View Details
- Hauter, Niels Viggo and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrea Lluch, eds. The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. View Details
- Friedman, Walter A. and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013. View Details
- Jones, G. Takokuseki kigyo no henkaku to dento: Yuniriba no saisei senkyuhyakurokujugo nisengonen [Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition]. Toyko, Japan: Bunshindō, 2013, Japanese ed. View Details
- Jones, G., ed. Banks as Multinationals. New York: Routledge, 2012. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Walter A. Friedman, eds. The Rise of the Modern Firm. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. View Details
- Jones, G. Beauty Imagined. A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Tokyo: Chuokeizai-sha, 2011, Japanese ed. View Details
- Jones, G. Beauty Imagined. A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2011, Chinese Mandarin ed. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrea Lluch, eds. El impacto histórico de la globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y empresarios [The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Enterprises and Entrepreneurs]. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Temas Grupo Editorial, 2011, Spanish ed. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Unilever'i Yenilemek: Dönüşüm ve Gelenek [Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition]. Istanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2010, Turkish ed. View Details
- Jones, G. Merchants to Multinationals. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha, 2009, Japanese ed. View Details
- Jones, G. Merchants to Multinationals. Foreign Language Athens: Alexandria Publications, 2008, Greek ed. View Details
- Jones, G., and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Business History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. View Details
- Jones, G. and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, eds. Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. View Details
- Jones, G. British Multinational Banking 1830-2000. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha, 2007, Japanese ed. View Details
- Jones, G. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Tokyo: Yūhikaku, 2007, Japanese ed. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. View Details
- Amatori, Franco, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History Around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Lina Galvez-Munoz, eds. Foreign Multinationals in the United States: Management and Performance. London: Routledge, 2001. View Details
- Jones, G. The Evolution of International Business. 2nd ed. Yūhikaku, 2000, Japanese ed. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Merchants to Multinationals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Winner of Newcomen-Harvard Book Award Given once every three years to the best work in the field of business history published in the United States.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, ed. The Multinational Traders. Routledge International Studies in Business History. London: Routledge, 1998. View Details
- Jones, G. The Evolution of International Business. Yūhikaku, 1998, Japanese ed. View Details
- Jones, G. The Evolution of International Business. London: Routledge, 1996. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Nicholas J. Morgan, eds. Adding Value: Brands and Marketing in Food and Drink. London: Routledge, 1994. View Details
- Jones, G., ed. The Making of Global Enterprises. London: Frank Cass, 1994. View Details
- Jones, G., ed. Transnational Corporations: A Historical Perspective. London: Routledge, 1993. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. British Multinational Banking 1830-1990. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. View Details
- Jones, G. and R. S. Tedlow, eds. The Rise and Fall of Mass Marketing. London: Routledge, 1993. View Details
- Jones, G., ed. Coalitions and Collaboration in International Business. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993. View Details
- Jones, G. and Harm Schroter, eds. The Rise of Multinationals in Continental Europe. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993. View Details
- Jones, G. and Charles Harvey, eds. Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage. London: Frank Cass, 1992. View Details
- Jones, G., ed. Banks and Money: International and Comparative Finance in History. London: Frank Cass, 1991. View Details
- Jones, G. and M. W. Kirby, eds. Competitiveness and the State: Government and Business in Twentieth-Century Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. View Details
- Jones, G., ed. Multinational and International Banking. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1991. View Details
- Jones, G., ed. Banks as Multinationals. London: Routledge, 1990. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. London: Frank Cass, 1989. View Details
- Jones, G., and R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, eds. British Business in Asia since 1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Banking and Oil. Vol. 2, History of the British Bank of the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. Banking and Empire in Iran. Vol. 1, History of the British Bank of the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. View Details
- Journal Articles
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- Giacomin, Valeria, Geoffrey Jones, and Erica Salvaj. "Business Investment in Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s." Business History 63, no. 7 (September 2021): 1113–1143. View Details
- Giacomin, Valeria, and Geoffrey Jones. "Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality." Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming). (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04875-4. Pre-published online, June 28, 2021.) View Details
- Sheth, Sudev, Geoffrey Jones, and Morgan Spencer. "Emboldening and Contesting Gender and Skin Color Stereotypes in the Film Industry in India, 1947–1991." Business History Review (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 12, 2021.) View Details
- Wadhwani, R. Daniel, David A. Kirsch, Frederike Welter, William B. Gartner, and Geoffrey Jones. "Context, Time, and Change: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 14, no. 1 (March 2020): 3–19. View Details
- Argyres, Nicholas, Alfredo De Massis, Nicolai J. Foss, Federico Frattini, Geoffrey Jones, and Brian Silverman. "History-informed Strategy Research: The Promise of History and Historical Research Methods in Advancing Strategy Scholarship." Strategic Management Journal 41, no. 3 (March 2020): 343–368. View Details
- da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and Geoffrey Jones. "Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History." Journal of International Business Studies 50, no. 8 (October 2019): 1338–1358. View Details
- Jones, G., and R. Comunale. "Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets." Enterprise & Society 20, no. 1 (March 2019): 19–32. View Details
- Jones, G., and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Australian Economic History Review 58, no. 3 (November 2018): 233–264. View Details
- Jones, G. "Global Business over Time." Keiei ronshū [Meiji Business Review] 65, no. 1 (March 2018): 1–26. View Details
- Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones. "The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets." Special Issue on Methodologies. Business History Review 91, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 537–569. View Details
- Jones, G. "Globalizing Latin American Beauty." ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 16, no. 3 (Spring 2017): 10–14. View Details
- Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna. "Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 11 (November 2017): 2147–2167. (Video Abstract.) View Details
- Jones, G., and Andrew Spadafora. "Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000." Enterprise & Society 18, no. 1 (March 2017): 146–183. View Details
- Jones, G., and Simon Mowatt. "National Image as a Competitive Disadvantage: The Case of the New Zealand Organic Food Industry." Business History 58, no. 8 (2016): 1262–1288. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey." Special Issue on Business Groups around the World. Business History 58, no. 1 (2016): 69–88. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Christos Pitelis. "Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization." Journal of International Management 21, no. 4 (December 2015): 309–321. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Making 'Green Giants': Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s–1980s." Business History 56, no. 4 (July 2014): 623–649. View Details
- Jones, G. "Firmes mondialisées et imaginaire de la beauté." Relations internationales 157 (April–June 2014): 131–146. View Details
- Jones, G., Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, and Stephen Broadberry. "The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History." Scandinavian Economic History Review 60, no. 3 (2012): 225–253. View Details
- Jones, G. "The Growth Opportunity That Lies Next Door." Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2012): 141–145. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Enterprise & Society 13, no. 1 (March 2012): 85–119. View Details
- Jones, G., and Christina Lubinski. "Wider dem sauren Mund. Beiersdorfs U.S.-Geschaeft mit der Zahnpastamarke Pebeco." Hamburger Wirtschafts-Chronik 9 (2012): 141–165. View Details
- Jones, G. "Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective." Ou Mei yan jiu [EurAmerica] 41, no. 4 (December 2011): 885–916. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Blonde and Blue-eyed? Globalizing Beauty, c.1945–c.1980." Economic History Review 61, no. 1 (February 2008). View Details
- Jones, G. "Learning to Live with Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950-1980." Entreprises et histoire 49 (December 2007). View Details
- Jones, G., and Peter Miskell. "Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business." Business History 49, no. 1 (January 2007). View Details
- Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization." Business and Economic History (Online) 5 (2007). View Details
- Wadhwani, Rohit Daniel, and Geoffrey Jones. "Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Methods in the Study of Entrepreneurship." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2006). View Details
- Jones, G., and Tarun Khanna. "Bringing History (Back) into International Business." Journal of International Business Studies 37, no. 4 (July 2006): 453–468. View Details
- Jones, G. "L'innovazione nella grande impresa: l'esperienza della Unilever dal 1960 al 1990." Annali di storia dell'impresa 17 (2006): 7–63. View Details
- Jones, G. "The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 51, no. 2 (2006): 149–166. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Peter Miskell. "European Integration and Corporate Restructuring: The Strategy of Unilever c1957-c1990." Economic History Review 58, no. 1 (February 2005): 113–139. View Details
- Jones, G., and Alison Kraft. "Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test." Business History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 100–122. View Details
- Jones, G. "Business Enterprises and Global Worlds." Enterprise & Society 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 581–605. View Details
- Jones, G. "Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980." Business History Review 76, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 435–478. View Details
- Nachum, L., G. Jones, and J. H. Dunning. "The International Competitiveness of the UK and its Multinational Enterprises." Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 12, no. 3 (September 2001): 277–294. View Details
- Jones, G., and S. Lundan. The "Commonwealth Effect" and the Process of Internationalisation. World Economy 24, no. 1 (January 2001): 99–118. View Details
- Jones, G., J. H. Dunning, and L. Nachum. "U.K. FDI and the Comparative Advantage of the U.K." World Economy 23, no. 5 (May 2000): 701–720. View Details
- Jones, G., and Judith Wale. "Diversification Strategies of British Trading Companies: Harrisons & Crosfield c1900-c1980." Business History 41, no. 2 (April 1999): 69–101. View Details
- Jones, G. "Corporate Governance and British Industry." Entreprises et histoire 21 (1999): 29–43. View Details
- Jones, G., and Judith Wale. "Merchants as Business Groups: British Trading Companies in Asia before 1945." Business History Review 72, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 367–408. View Details
- Jones, G. "Global Perspectives and British Paradoxes." Business History Review 71, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 291–298. View Details
- Jones, G. "Multinationals, Development and Social Change in Asia: Long-Term Perspectives." Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies 39 (1997): 3–23. View Details
- Jones, G., and Frances Bostock. "U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962." Business History Review 70, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 207–256. View Details
- Jones, G. "Diversification Strategies and Corporate Governance in Trading Companies: Anglo-Japanese Comparisons since the Late Nineteenth Century." Business and Economic History 25, no. 2 (Winter 1996): 103–118. View Details
- Jones, G. "The Making of Global Enterprise." Business History 36, no. 1 (January 1994): 1–17. View Details
- Jones, G., and Frances Bostock. "Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962." Business History 36, no. 1 (January 1994): 89–126. View Details
- Jones, G. "Big Business, Management and Competitiveness in Twentieth Century Britain." Keiei Shigaku [Japan Business History Review] 29 (1994). View Details
- Jones, G. "Cross-Investments in Transnational Banking: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 39 (1994). View Details
- Jones, G., and Mary B. Rose. "Family Capitalism." Business History 35, no. 4 (October 1993): 1–16. View Details
- Jones, G. "British Multinational Enterprise and British Business History since the Nineteenth Century." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 38 (1993): 234–260. View Details
- Jones, G. "British Business in Germany since the Nineteenth Century." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 37 (1992). View Details
- Jones, G. "Public Policy and British Multinational Banks 1914-1982." Business and Economic History 21 (1992): 209–218. View Details
- Jones, G. "Foreign Multinational Investment in Britain before 1945." Economic History Review 41 (1988): 429–453. View Details
- Book Chapters
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- Jones, Geoffrey. "Sostenibilidad y negocios verdes en América Latina." Chap. 7 in Historia empresarial en América Latina: temas, debates y problemas, edited by Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve Zanatti, and Marcelo Bucheli, 171–194. Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2021, Spanish ed. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Renewing the Relevance of IB: Can Some History Help?" Chap. 6 in The Multiple Dimensions of Institutional Complexity in International Business Research. Vol. 15, edited by Alain Verbeke, Rob van Tulder, Elizabeth L. Rose, and Yingqi Wei, 77–92. Progress in International Business Research. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Teresa da Silva Lopes. "International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters." Chap. 2 in The Oxford Handbook of International Business Strategy, edited by Kamel Mellahi, Klaus E. Meyer, Rajneesh Narula, Irina Surdu, and Alain Verbeke. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2021. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism." Chap. 31 in The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business, edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. Electronic. View Details
- Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective." Chap. 1 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones, 3–22. New York: Routledge, 2020. View Details
- Hunter, Janet, and G. Jones. "Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective." Chap. 10 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and G. Jones, 224–245. New York: Routledge, 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "The Great Divergence and the Great Convergence." Chap. 37 in The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi J.S. Tworek, 578–592. New York: Routledge, 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Origins and Development of Global Business." Chap. 2 in The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi J.S. Tworek, 17–34. New York: Routledge, 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "International Business and Emerging Markets in Historical Perspective." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Management in Emerging Markets, edited by Robert Grosse and Klaus E. Meyer, 55–76. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence." Chap. 5 in Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution, and Resilience, edited by Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino, 123–146. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy." Chap. 12 in Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome, 206–231. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. View Details
- Jones, G. "Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism." Chap. 7 in Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective, edited by Patrick Fridenson and Takeo Kikkawa, 144–169. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. View Details
- Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Geoffrey Jones. "Globalization in Historical Perspective." Chap. 3 in The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications, by Pankaj Ghemawat, 56–81. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host Economies." In Multidisciplinary Insights from New AIB Fellows. Vol. 16, edited by Jean J. Boddewyn, 177–198. Research in Global Strategic Management. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2014. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Firms and Global Capitalism." Chap. 6 in The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present, edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, 169–200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. View Details
- Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research." Chap. 8 in Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods, edited by Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani, 192–216. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. View Details
- Jones, G. "The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective." Chap. 1 in Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Thomas Kuhne, 25–40. Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups in Historical Perspectives." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management. Oxford University Press, 2010. View Details
- Jones, G., and Lucy Newton. "The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking." In Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard Coopey and Peter Lyth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. View Details
- Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Entrepreneurship and the History of Globalization." In The Act of Accumulation. Essays in Honor of Gyorgy Kover, edited by J. Klement, K. Halmos, A. Pogany, and B. Tomka. Budapest: Századvég Kiadó, 2009. View Details
- Jones, G. "Globalization." In The Oxford Handbook of Business History, edited by G. Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. View Details
- Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Entrepreneurship." In The Oxford Handbook of Business History, edited by G. Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. View Details
- Jones, G. "Business Archives and Overcoming Survivor Bias." In Business Archives. Reflections and Speculations, edited by M. Anson. London: Business Archives Council, 2008. View Details
- Jones, G. "Multinationals from the 1930s to the 1980s." In Leviathans. Multinational Corporations And The New Global History, edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. View Details
- Jones, G., and Keetie Sluyterman. "British and Dutch Business History." In Business History Around the World, edited by Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. View Details
- Jones, G. "Multinationals." In Business History Around the World, edited by Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. View Details
- Jones, G., J. Dunning, and L. Nachum. "The International Competitiveness of the UK: Is It Eroding or Rather Changing Form?" In Multinational Firms: The Global-Local Dilemma, edited by J. H. Dunning and J. L. Mucchielli. London: Routledge, 2001. View Details
- Jones, G. "Multinational Cross-Investment between Switzerland and Britain 1914-1945." In Switzerland and the Great Powers 1914-1945, edited by Sebastien Guex. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1999. View Details
- Jones, G. "British Trading Companies and Industrial Development." In Deindustrialisation and Reindustrialisation in 20th Century Europe, edited by F. Amatori, A. Colli, and N. Crepas. Milan: Franco Angeli Edizioni, 1999. View Details
- Jones, G. "Company History and Business History in the 1990s." In European Yearbook of Business History, edited by Wilfried Feldenkirchen and Terry Gourvish. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. View Details
- Jones, G. "British Overseas Banks as Free-Standing Companies 1830-1994." In The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996, edited by M. Wilkins and H. G. Schroter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. View Details
- Jones, G. "Concentration and Internationalisation in Banks after the Second World War." In International Banking in an Age of Transition, edited by Sara Kinsey and Lucy Newton. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1998. View Details
- Jones, G. "Big Business, Management and Competitiveness in Twentieth Century Britain." In Big Business and the Wealth of Nations, edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. View Details
- Jones, G. "The Evolution of European Multinational Banking before 1914: Comparisons and Contrasts." In Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Unternehman, edited by W. Feldenkirchen, F. Schonert-Rohlk, and G. Schulz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. View Details
- Jones, G. "British Multinationals and British Business since 1850." In Business Enterprise in Modern Britain: From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, edited by M. W. Kirby and M. Rose. London: Routledge, 1994. View Details
- Jones, G. "British Multinational Banking in Asia before 1960." In Pacific Banking 1859-1959: East Meets West, edited by O. Checkland, S. Nishimura, and N. Tamaki. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. View Details
- Jones, G. "British Multinational Banking Strategies Over Time." In The Growth of Global Business, edited by H. Cox, J. Clegg, and G. Ietto-Gillies. London: Routledge, 1993. View Details
- Jones, G. "Great Britain." In Europaische Bankengeschichte, edited by Hubert Bonin, Hans Pohl, and Gabriele Jachmich. Frankfurt: Verlag Fritz Knapp, 1993. View Details
- Jones, G. "International Financial Centres in Asia, the Middle East and Australia: A Historical Perspective." In Finance and Financiers in European History, 1880-1960, edited by Y. Cassis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. View Details
- Jones, G. "The Legacy of the Past: British Multinational Banking Strategies since the Nineteenth Century." In Multinational Enterprises in the World Economy, edited by Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1992. View Details
- Jones, G. "Competition and Competitiveness in British Banking 1918-1971." In Competitiveness and the State: Government and Business in Twentieth-Century Britain, edited by G. Jones and M. Kirby. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. View Details
- Jones, G. "Competitive Advantages in British Multinational Banking since 1890." In Banks as Multinationals, edited by G. Jones. London: Routledge, 1990. View Details
- Jones, G. "The British Government and Foreign Multinationals before 1970." In Governments, Industries and Markets: Aspects of Government-Industry Relations in Great Britain, Japan, West Germany and the United States of America since 1945, edited by M. Chick. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1990. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Business of K-12 Education in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-022, October 2021. View Details
- Giacomin, Valeria, and G. Jones. "Spiritual Philanthropy in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-117, April 2021. View Details
- Sheth, Sudev, Geoffrey Jones, and Morgan Spencer. "Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-077, January 2021. View Details
- Giacomin, Valeria, G. Jones, and Erica Salvaj. "Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-039, October 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-056, November 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-009, August 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-102, May 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-048, December 2017. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-020, September 2017. View Details
- Austin, Gareth, Carlos Dávila, and Geoffrey Jones. "Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-012, August 2017. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-004, July 2017. View Details
- Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna. "Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-060, January 2017. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-052, December 2016. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Ben Gettinger. "Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-034, October 2016. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-136, June 2016. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-066, November 2015. View Details
- Coplan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-035, November 2014. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-084, March 2014. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-018, August 2013. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-004, July 2013. View Details
- Jones, G. "Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-076, March 2013. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-024, August 2012. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-003, July 2011. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Loubna Bouamane. "Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-112, May 2011. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-076, March 2010. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani. "Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-007, July 2006. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Peter Miskell. "Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-050, June 2006. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Nationality and Multinationals in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-052, June 2006. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Globalizing the Beauty Business before 1980." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-056, June 2006. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Managing Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950-1980." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-061, June 2006. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani. "Schumpeter's Plea: Rediscovering History and Relevance in the Study of Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-036, February 2006. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Tarun Khanna. "Bringing History into International Business." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-013, August 2004. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Loubna Bouamane. "'Power from Sunshine': A Business History of Solar Energy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-105, May 2012. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Jones, Geoffrey, and David Kiron. "Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914." Harvard Business School Case 804-001, October 2003. (Revised December 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Grace Ballor. "Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 821-066, January 2021. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Grace Ballor. "George Soros: The Stateless Statesman." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 321-094, December 2020. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Gabriel Ellsworth, and Ryo Takahashi. "From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan." Harvard Business School Case 321-043, August 2020. (Revised August 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Wendy Ying. "George Soros: The Stateless Statesman." Harvard Business School Case 321-012, August 2020. (Revised November 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Yazeed Al-Rashed. "Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil." Harvard Business School Case 321-003, July 2020. (Revised September 2021.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emilie Takayama. "Momofuku Ando and the Globalization of Noodles." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 320-049, November 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emilie Takayama. "Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 820-066, November 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Megumi Takada. "Momofuku Ando and the Globalization of Noodles." Harvard Business School Case 320-006, July 2019. (Revised April 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Tarun Khanna, Nataliya Langburd Wright, and Morgan Spencer. "Innovation and Business in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-111, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Tarun Khanna, Nataliya Langburd Wright, and Morgan Spencer. "Innovation and Business in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 319-110, April 2019. (Revised July 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Sudev J. Sheth. "Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 319-088, February 2019. (Revised April 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Sudev J Sheth. "Entrepreneurship & Global Capitalism: Overview." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 319-087, January 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Capitalism, Entrepreneurship and Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 319-081, January 2019. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "John Chambers, Cisco and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-080, December 2018. View Details
- Jones, G., and Sudev J Sheth. "Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-070, December 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-060, November 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Sudev J. Sheth. "Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-058, November 2018. (Revised December 2018.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 319-702, November 2018. (Click here for Educator’s access at HBP.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Tarun Khanna, and Nataliya Langburd Wright. "Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-055, October 2018. (Revised February 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Tarun Khanna, and Nataliya Langburd Wright. "Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 319-054, October 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-051, October 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Valeria Giacomin. "Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 319-008, July 2018. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield." Harvard Business School Case 318-158, June 2018. (Revised April 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent." Harvard Business School Case 318-139, April 2018. (Revised April 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Rachael Comunale, and Kate Lazaroff-Puck. "Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs." Harvard Business School Case 317-005, March 2017. (Revised December 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 318-092, December 2017. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Valeria Giacomin. "Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 318-081, November 2017. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Valeria Giacomin. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 818-063, October 2017. (Revised October 2017.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Snigdha Sur. "Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman." Harvard Business School Case 317-100, May 2017. (Revised April 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Kathy Choi. "Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman." Harvard Business School Case 317-116, April 2017. (Revised December 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Veronique Pouillard. "Christian Dior: A New Look for Haute Couture." Harvard Business School Case 809-159, June 2009. (Revised April 2017.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Ai Hisano. "Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 317-083, December 2016. (Revised November 2017.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Ai Hisano. "Christian Dior: A New Look for Haute Couture." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 317-072, November 2016. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Amanda Yang. "Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy." Harvard Business School Case 317-045, September 2016. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Seema Amble. "Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 317-028, September 2016. (Revised December 2018.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Essie Alamsyah. "Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World." Harvard Business School Case 316-178, May 2016. (Revised April 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Bjoern von Siemens. "Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph." Harvard Business School Case 811-004, July 2010. (Revised May 2016.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Michael Norris. "Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 316-090, February 2016. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Jessica Burch. "Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 316-102, December 2015. (Revised October 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Jessica Burch. "Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 316-091, October 2015. (Revised October 2015.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Jessica Burch. "Hans Wilsdorf and Rolex." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 316-088, October 2015. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Jessica Burch. "Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 316-083, October 2015. (Revised September 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Jessica Burch. "Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 316-074, October 2015. (Revised September 2016.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-070, September 2015. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Michael Norris, and Sophi Kim. "Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport." Harvard Business School Case 316-007, July 2015. (Revised January 2020.) View Details
- Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-078, December 2014. (Revised January 2015.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science." Harvard Business School Case 314-087, March 2014. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Elliot R. Benton. "Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa." Harvard Business School Case 313-148, June 2013. (Revised November 2016.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Veronica Tong. "TATCHA: Marketing the Beauty Secrets of Japanese Geisha." Harvard Business School Case 313-149, June 2013. (Revised June 2016.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen Storli. "Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading." Harvard Business School Case 813-020, June 2012. (Revised December 2017.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Lana Ghanem. "Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-052, August 2012. (Revised May 2021.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Hari Balkrishna. "Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon." Harvard Business School Case 811-017, August 2010. (Revised January 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 811-023, August 2010. (Revised December 2016.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Alexander Atzberger. "Hans Wilsdorf and Rolex." Harvard Business School Case 805-138, May 2005. (Revised September 2015.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Marcelo Bucheli. "The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala." Harvard Business School Case 805-146, May 2005. (Revised January 2021.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Alexis Lefort. "McKinsey and the Globalization of Consultancy." Harvard Business School Case 806-035, August 2005. (Revised January 2012.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Felipe Tamega Fernandes. "The Guggenheims and Chilean Nitrates." Harvard Business School Case 810-141, June 2010. (Revised January 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Alexis Lefort. "Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-018, August 2006. (Revised June 2015.) View Details
- Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group." Harvard Business School Case 811-081, June 2011. (Revised November 2014.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Christina Lubinski. "Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism." Harvard Business School Case 811-060, April 2011. (Revised September 2011.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Elisabeth Koll, and Alexis Gendron. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Case 805-010, July 2004. (Revised October 2018.) View Details
- Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 811-104, June 2011. (Revised November 2012.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Grace Ballor, and Adrian Brown. "Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany." Harvard Business School Case 807-133, June 2007. (Revised September 2021.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Ingrid Vargas. "Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire." Harvard Business School Case 804-078, November 2003. (Revised September 2021.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Daniel Wadhwani. "Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935." Harvard Business School Case 804-089, November 2003. (Revised September 2016.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Prabakar 'PK' Kothandaraman, and Kerry Herman. "Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence." Harvard Business School Case 807-028, August 2006. (Revised October 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Stephanie Decker. "Ken Durham and Unilever as a 'Multi-Local Multinational'." Harvard Business School Case 808-025, August 2007. (Revised October 2017.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Lisa Bud-Freirman. "Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (A)." Harvard Business School Case 804-085, November 2003. (Revised May 2016.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Lisa Bud-Freirman. "Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-086, January 2004. (Revised August 2015.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and David Kiron. "Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty." Harvard Business School Case 808-133, June 2008. (Revised April 2013.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine. "'Walking on a Tightrope': Maintaining London as a Financial Center." Harvard Business School Case 804-081, November 2003. (Revised July 2014.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey. "Brazil at the Wheel." Harvard Business School Case 804-080, November 2003. (Revised November 2015.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrea Lluch. "Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas." Harvard Business School Case 807-155, May 2007. (Revised April 2020.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Masako Egawa, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi (A)." Harvard Business School Case 808-158, June 2008. (Revised September 2019.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., Masako Egawa, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 809-038, August 2008. (Revised November 2015.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Alexis Gendron. "In Search of Global Regulation." Harvard Business School Case 805-025, October 2004. (Revised October 2013.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Cate Reavis. "Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations." Harvard Business School Case 804-027, August 2003. (Revised January 2013.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G. "Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 810-016, July 2009. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, Namrata Arora, Surachita Mishra, and Alexis Lefort. "Can Bollywood Go Global?" Harvard Business School Case 806-040, August 2005. (Revised July 2014.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Adam Minnick. "Good Technology: Empowering Mobility around the Globe (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 805-140, June 2005. (Revised July 2009.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Marcelo Bucheli. "The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 809-084, January 2009. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey, and Paul Gomopoulos. "Aristotle Onassis and the Greek Shipping Industry." Harvard Business School Case 805-141, May 2005. (Revised December 2015.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Michelle McDonald. "Rwanda and the Thousand Hills Coffee Co.: Breaking New Grounds." Harvard Business School Case 807-004, August 2006. (Revised July 2008.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., Akiko Kanno, and Masako Egawa. "Making China Beautiful: Shiseido and the China Market." Harvard Business School Case 805-003, October 2004. (Revised July 2013.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Debating the Expropriation of Mexican Oil." Harvard Business School Case 805-011, August 2004. (Revised June 2008.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Adam Minnick. "Good Technology: Empowering Mobility Around the Globe (A)." Harvard Business School Case 805-139, June 2005. (Revised January 2008.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Jillian Hirasawa. "Inniskillin and the Globalization of Icewine." Harvard Business School Case 805-129, May 2005. (Revised January 2008.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Natura: Global Beauty Made in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 807-029, August 2006. (Revised October 2012.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G. "Making China Beautiful: Shiseido and the China Market (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 806-027, July 2005. (Revised August 2007.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G. "Brazil at the Wheel (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 806-033, July 2005. (Revised April 2007.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G. "L'Oreal and the Globalization of American Beauty (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 806-162, March 2006. (Revised October 2006.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Steven Shaheen. "Global Fun: The Internationalization of Theme Parks." Harvard Business School Case 806-018, July 2005. (Revised October 2006.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine. "American Challenge, The:" Europe's Response to American Business. Harvard Business School Case 804-057, September 2003. (Revised June 2006.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., David Kiron, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "L'Oreal and the Globalization of American Beauty." Harvard Business School Case 805-086, April 2005. (Revised February 2006.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G. "Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-Era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 806-034, July 2005. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G. "Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914 (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 806-026, July 2005. View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G. "Multinationals as Engines of Growth?" Harvard Business School Case 803-108, January 2003. (Revised June 2005.) View Details
- Jones, Geoffrey G., and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine. "Expropriation in International Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-020, July 2003. View Details
- Research Summary
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Professor Jones researches the history and impact of globalization. His focus is on the role of entrepreneurs and business enterprises. He has an on-going research interest in the beauty industry, and is now also researching the history of sustainable and responsible business worldwide. Professor Jones has a strong interest in the business history of emerging markets. He founded and co-directs the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project.
This research examines the global beauty industry, which includes cosmetics, deodorants, fragrances, hair care, oral hygiene and skin care. Today global sales of cosmetics and toiletries are in excess of U.S. $380 billion. This research examines the growth of this industry worldwide since the nineteenth century, during which it was transformed from a collection of small firms making products considered dangerous to one's health and morality to a global industry led by corporations such as L'Oréal and Procter & Gamble. The project investigates not only the drivers of globalization of beauty, but the impact on consumer perceptions of what it means to be beautiful.
This research recovers the history of the entrepreneurs and firms who developed green or “sustainable” businesses, identifies the multiple motivations behind their strategies, explores the clustering of green business in specific locations, and shows how the concept of “greenness” has evolved over time. The industries covered include wind and solar energy, organic food and agriculture, natural beauty, construction and architecture, eco-tourism, waste disposal and recycling
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I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases, many of them developed with MBAs who have taken the course in previous years, span both time and geography as they explore the role of business leaders in globalization and deglobalization. I also teach a doctoral course in business history which is focussed on historical waves of globalization and de-globalization.
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Selected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2020 for distinction in the social sciences.
Selected as a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies in 2019.
Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Helsinki, Finland, for distinguished research in business history, 2014.
Winner of the 2013 Oxford Journals Article Prize with Christina Lubinski for the best article published in Enterprise & Society in the previous year for their paper, "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990" (March 2012).
Awarded an Honorary PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the Copenhagen Business School in 2012.
Honored in 2011 as the May Ushiyama Honorary Professor of Beauty Business.
Elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2009.
Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for the most outstanding book published on British business history in 2000 for Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Winner of the Newcomen-Harvard Award for the most outstanding book published in business history in the United States 1998–2000 for Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1991.
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