author: geoffrey jones

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

... market had reached $2 billion in 2006, being especially strong in Japan and ... L'Oréal, combined a deep-seated commitment to research alongside their formidable ... target market extending from ages 15 to 90.126 Major differences were ...

The Making of Global Enterprises

... think are right and you'll just have to learn to live with that : that's your contribution to EI ' . Nevertheless , during the second half of the 1980s Ford ... manual was an incredible piece of work , but a manual doesn't build cars ' . Over ...

Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership

... Omnilife, the Roddicks stepped down as cochairs but remained non- executive directors. Gournay also left. The Body ... price by 300 percent from its low in 2002.163 In 2006 the Roddicks and McGlinn were able to sell The Body Shop to L ...

Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming

... Pearson succinctly summed up: They were answerable for the honesty, efficiency and liquidity of the reinsurers whose ... Naples: E. Jovene; R. Van de Casteele ( ) La réassurance au point de vue juridique. Paris: L'Argus; C. E. ...

The End of Insularity: Essays in Comparative Business History

... world did not exist . In business history , as in much else , there are many gains to be had from ending British insularity . NOTES 1. Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol.1 ( 1958–59 ) , p.1 . 2. See , for example , Clive ...

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals

... Unilever retained and expanded its business in developing countries after World War II, just as other Western ... Brazil, and South Africa, were sold in the mid-1980s, in the former case to Unilever. Unilever also sold foods products ...

Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

... products 147 and toothpaste 146 'Greenhouse Effect' 343 Group of 77 327 Groupe des ... Hindustan Lever 165, 168, 170, 171–4, 211, 224, 318, 363 Hindustan Lever ... list system 228–9 and networks 230 and performance-related pay 230–231 and ...

Family Capitalism

... top 100 list , with the one exception of the chemical company of State Mines ( Stikstofbindingsbedrijf ) , because in this case the State Mines is not included . Foreign subsidiaries are also excluded . Companies which were indepen ...

Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

... moral ABC that “Absolute Cleanliness is Godliness.”62 Bronner saw business in the same manner as Rudolf Steiner: as a means to support his social and ideological agenda. He spoke in Pershing Square in Los Angeles, a hot-bed of radical ...

Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage

... Columbia University's departments and divisions were expected to emulate the ... Columbia limited its programme to graduate professional education. In this way ... coursework. Columbia's strategy was in fact job-specific/vocational. It ...

Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time

... fit the description of entrepreneurial philanthropy discussed in Chapter 1.69 Tompkins felt compelled to buy as much land as possible because he believed neither businesses nor governments could be trusted to respect the Patagonian ...

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