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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
a struggle, but sometimes a rewarding one. "I don’t think you have to trust just the people who look familiar to you," Wiley said. "Even if you’re the only person of color, that doesn’t mean you can’t test the trust ... or... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
Edward G. Gardner
Gardner began mixing hair and beauty products for blacks out of his basement during the 1940s. Around 1960, he began working for another beauty supply business and when it went bankrupt, Gardner took its customers and began producing his own line of Soft Sheen... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Jay Van Andel
In 1959, with his partner Richard DeVos, Van Andel established one of the most profitable direct selling companies in the world. Van Andel and DeVos accomplished their success through the use of an elaborate pyramid-like distribution... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
describes the troubling experiences of a young man, Jerry, in his first real job. Jerry sells insurance to the poor on behalf of a large, faceless organization. The insurance he's selling is bogus and he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Madam C. J. Walker
The intensity of Walker’s early jobs began to cause hair loss, and it was out of this unfortunate circumstance that grew her “secret” formula for a scalp ointment that promoted healthy hair growth. Madame Walker began selling her product... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Gilbert Colgate
Colgate merged with the Peet Company and B. J. Johnson, maker of Palmolive soap, the largest selling soap brand in America in the early 1900s. Colgate led the newly merged Colgate, Palmolive-Peet Company with assets of $63 million. The... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Richard M. DeVos
In 1959, with his partner Jay Van Andel, DeVos established one of the most profitable direct selling companies in the world. Van Andel and DeVos accomplished their success through the use of an elaborate pyramid-like distribution system... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
be on the verge of another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his View Details
Reuben Mark
When Mark took over in 1984, the consumer goods giant was in the midst of trying to reinvent itself. The company had grown tremendously in the 70s through a series of less than stellar acquisitions and one of Mark’s first tasks was to View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to help the consumer and provide... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
and that was not expected to reap mega-returns. Indeed, many homeowners, coping with repairs, renovations, and taxes, saw their homes as moneypits. Home As Investment Over the past decade, home became an exciting investment, more a place to buy and View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
the monthly payments, particularly after the grace period of the low opening rate, he could sell the house, maybe make a profit. The dizzying escalation in home prices, however, masked the shaky underpinnings of this empire. When prices... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
understanding of how the market is judging their firm's stock. Typical decisions could include: (1) Should I buy or sell this stock? (2) As a private company, what would my stock be worth as a public company or if I had an IPO? (3) As a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
as an ethical argument, actually. It's really just a different calculation of personal costs and benefits. Regarding people as individual value-maximizers is a valid point of view, but it certainly isn't the only one. Other people see the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence at venture capital firm Accel... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
illustration by Vahram Muradyan illustration by Vahram Muradyan A few years ago I went through a sort of wilderness experience, where nothing was lining up. I had to sell my car and move in with a roommate to cut costs. There was a moment... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
casually dressed person is a big shot and why do we do it? What's going on psychologically?" Bellezza says. Keinan and Bellezza, teaming with HBS Associate Professor Francesca Gino, conducted a series of studies to gauge how people react... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
believe in being comfortable in your own skin,” says Harris. “I don’t feel like I have to turn on the banker and turn off the singer and spiritual person — they coexist.” Harris describes her family background as solidly middle class. Her... View Details