About - Jonathan Wichmann

In 2001, John B. Fullerton decided to leave his high-paying, prestigious job on Wall Street. For almost 18 years, he had worked for the large American investment bank J.P. Morgan, including a long stint as Managing Director responsible for various aspects...

What will the future of business be like? One way of finding out is arguably to focus on future challenges in society at large.
In 2017, Geoffrey Jones, professor in Business History at Harvard Business School, published Profits and Sustainability. In the opening lines, he wrote: “The degradation of the natural environment presents the greatest challenge faced by humanity.”...

What are the key lessons from business history that will still apply in the future?
My most loyal readers will know that this is the question I’m currently trying to answer, as part of my project to describe the future of business.
First, I spoke to Chris McKenna of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. Since my last post I’ve also spoken to Nitin Nohria, the Dean at Harvard Business School, and Geoffrey G. Jones, Profesor of Business History at Harvard Business School....

What are the key lessons from business history that will remain important in the future? That’s the question I’ve been trying to answer in my recent posts.
My answers have in no small part been informed by a conversation I had with business historian Chris McKenna of Saïd Business School at Oxford University....