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'Beauty for All' strategy that emphasized accessibility across skin tones. The brand’s success was followed by the launch of Savage X Fenty, a lingerie line upholding similar values. However, the Fenty Fashion House, launched as a luxury... View Details

Jill J. Avery

Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

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David E. Bell

David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.

During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk... View Details

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23 Dec 2009
Working Paper Summaries

The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen

Geoffrey G. Jones

Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

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2013
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Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Culture; Behavior; Society

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Youngme Moon is the Donald K. David Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Professor Moon's research sits at the intersection of brand strategy and culture, with a particular focus on the emergent AI economy. She is the author of the bestselling book, View Details

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Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

21 Apr 2015
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markets while it declined in the U.S.? What were the implications of the change in marketing strategy to Godiva's brand image? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-075 Stella McCartney Stella... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

2017
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Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist

This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective

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02 Sep 2015
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What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

This past month, a New York Times report on Amazon’s personnel strategies prompted several days of intense debate. A number of questions can be raised about the article itself, given the fact that much of it was based on interviews with those who had left an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion

Sophus A. Reinert

Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

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Nancy F. Koehn

Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

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08 Apr 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

Aesthetics to Budding Business LeadersPauline Brown, a former top executive with French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, teaches a course called The Business of Aesthetics. Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion

01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend

toward circularity has been “an utter and complete lack of infrastructure,” Bolon observes. Looper Textile Co. was founded in 2023 to address that. A joint venture of the multinational fashion brand H&M Group and the European... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Sandra J. Sucher

Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

was followed by the launch of Savage X Fenty, a lingerie line upholding similar values. However, the Fenty Fashion House, launched as a luxury clothing brand under LVMH, was placed on hiatus shortly after. This case explores the... View Details

31 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

1770. “ the Care and Labour of providing for artificial and fashionable Wants, the Sight of so many Rich wallowing in superfluous Plenty, whereby so many are kept poor distress’d by Want. The Insolence of Office, the Snares and Plagues of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

leader must have a basic threshold of knowledge but does not necessarily need to be the most knowledgeable in an organization. "A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy," observes Kotter. EINSTEINIAN... View Details

Keywords: Management

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

LISH senior research scientist Michael Menietti; Katherine C. Kellogg, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Luca Vendraminelli, who is affiliated with LISH and a post-doctoral fellow at the Politecnico di Milano. Trusting a View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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