In the media

Deeply Responsible Business.

A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership by Geoffrey Jones

“Deeply Responsible Business” by Geoffrey Jones explores the rich history of ethical leadership and values-driven entrepreneurship. Discover how business leaders across centuries balanced profit and purpose to shape sustainable enterprises. Available now from Harvard University Press. Listen to the author’s book trailer and presentation.

Talks and Presentations

The Inspiring Leadership Podcast
The Inspiring Leadership Podcast

An interview with Darryl Cooke

Podcast interview for the New Books Network Economic and Business History Channel
Podcast interview for the New Books Network Economic and Business History Channel

with Paula de la Cruz-Fernández and Christopher Marquis
Academy of
International Business Frontline IB interview
Academy of
International Business Frontline IB interview

with Geoffrey Jones
Perspectives in Business Interview
Perspectives in Business Interview

with Juan Carlos Giraldo

Interviews and Articles
Speaking at Special Symposium of Academy of International Business Sustainability SIG 2025 at Sun Yat-sen University in Shenzhen, China, May 2025.

Presenting my book Deeply Responsible Business (Harvard University Press, 2023) and speaking on behalf of Business History Review at Meet the Editor session.

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Geoffrey Jones presenting Deeply Responsible Business at Aoyama Business School in Tokyo, March 29th, 2025.

Speaking about Deeply Responsible Business (Harvard University Press, 2023) at the 150th anniversary celebrations of Aoyama Gakuin University in an event co-organized with
the Japan Society for Business Ethics.

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Harvard Business School Workshop at the Business History Conference in Atlanta, GA, March 2025.

Full day workshop in honor of Geoffrey Jones organized by Grace Ballor and Ai Hisano with Harvard fellows.

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Panel on Deeply Responsible Business at the the European Business History Association meeting in Oslo, Norway.

Great comments, supportive and critical, by Youssef Cassis, Hartmut Berghoff, Anki Bergquist and Mary Yeager. Exciting session.

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Is Your Business strategy Shaping Up to Be Woke, Broke or Bespoke? Boston Business Journal
“In his outstanding new book, Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values- Driven Business, HBS professor and business historian Geoffrey Jones challenges head-on the notion that for-profit leaders have never be virtuous while chasing the bottom line […] This is a timely and insightful read.”

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A Higher Degree of Responsibility. On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises
Featured article in Harvard Magazine, adapted by Geoffrey Jones from “Profit or Purpose?”, the introduction chapter of his book Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership published by Harvard University Press.

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

Offers an invaluable historical perspective on business responsibility from the 1800s Quaker capitalism to Modern B-Corps

Published by Harvard University Press

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Deeply Responsible Business