Jones, Geoffrey, 1952-

Geoffrey G. Jones is a British-born business historian. He became a US citizen in 2010. He is currently Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. The previous holders of this Chair, which was the first in the world in business history being founded in 1927, included Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Thomas K. McCraw. Jones's works have concentrated on the historical evolution of globalization, international banking and trading, and foreign direct investment by multinationals. He has published histories of Unilever, and has more recently written on the history of sustainable business worldwide. In 2017 he published a historical study of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century until the present day called Profits and Sustainability. A History of Green Entrepreneurship (Oxford, 2017) His most recent book is called Deeply Responsible Business. A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership (Harvard University Press, 2023)