A version of this article appeared in the July–August 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Historian Geoffrey Jones on why knowledge stays put
As Harvard Business School begins its second century, we asked Geoffrey Jones, the school’s Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, to look both forward and back, placing the current moment in global business in context. In the following edited excerpts of his remarks, Jones challenges the notion of a flattening world while still offering a […]
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A business historian reminds us that since the nineteenth century, predictions about globalization have been reliably wrong. Despite technology for the fast diffusion of knowledge, information—like wealth—seems to be concentrating even further.