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- 2010
- Book
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
By: Geoffrey Jones
The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms that have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book...
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Keywords:
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Brands and Branding;
Industry Growth;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Jones, Geoffrey. Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Research Summary
Business History
Walter Friedman serves as co-editor of Business History Review. He has a special interest in the history of marketing and personal selling, and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Harvard, 2004). He is also interested in the...
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- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
myself, perceive of business history as playing a central role in enhancing our understanding of key issues in contemporary management and business administration. View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
The 10 Best Business Books of 2016
- 2022
- Book
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain’s twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation’s cultural superiority, but what legacy did...
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Imperialism;
Violence;
Colonialism;
History;
Government and Politics;
Power and Influence;
Race;
Policy;
United Kingdom
Elkins, Caroline M. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- 2014
- Chapter
Firms and Global Capitalism
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work that traces the history of capitalism from its origins to the present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in...
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Keywords:
Political Economy;
American History;
Economic History;
Business History;
Labor History;
Slavery;
Numeracy And Quantification;
Science And Technology Studies;
History Of The Book;
International Investment;
International Business;
International Marketing;
Globalization;
History
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.
- September 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Background Note
A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Henry McGee
This history of the U.S. tobacco controversy is a reading for a class on "The Insider," a film about whistleblowing in the U.S. tobacco industry, taught in the course, The Moral Leader.
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Henry McGee. "A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy." Harvard Business School Background Note 613-044, September 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
- 20 Feb 2024
- News
Honoring the History of Black Americans in the Military
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
Date: April 17-18, 2008 Faculty Chair: Richard S. Tedlow Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: The Intellectual History of the Harvard Business...
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History of Excellence - Doctoral
History Of Excellence History Of Excellence Part of Harvard University’s tradition View Details
- 13 Aug 2017
- News
Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist
- 2003
- Book
Business History Around the World
By: Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones
This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. It provides wide-ranging surveys of the literature in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Japan and the Chinese-speaking world, and examines...
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Family Business;
Debates;
Business History;
Body of Literature;
Surveys;
Business and Government Relations;
Research;
China;
Japan;
Europe;
Latin America;
United States
Amatori, Franco, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History Around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- fall 1993
- Article
On the Early History of Experimental Economics
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "On the Early History of Experimental Economics." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 15 (fall 1993): 184–209.
- winter 1999
- Article
The People's Republic of China as History
By: William C. Kirby
Kirby, William C. "The People's Republic of China as History." Sino-American Relations 25, no. 4 (winter 1999): 12–21. (also published in Harvard Asia Quarterly (June 1999))
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The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
Tedlow, Richard S. "The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 7, 2008).
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
FT business books of the month: January edition
- 15 Jan 2021
- News
Top Ten Technology Books Of 2020
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil wars. Based on a half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, itpresents...
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