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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Estée Lauder in 1930. Photograph courtesy of Estée Lauder Companies. The daughter of immigrant merchants in Queens, New York, Estée Lauder, born Josephine Esther Mentzer, began selling skin cream to women in New York City beauty parlors... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Rich People Now Have a Safe Way to Dump Their Jewelry
- 15 May 2018
- News
Talking Disruption With Bluemercury Founder Marla Beck
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
To the people of Ghana, shea butter is known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey shea-nut trees across the wilds of sub-Saharan... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Proven Skincare's Ming Zhao on Applying AI to Customized Cosmetics
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- News
How a Passion for Travel Built a $43 Million Fashion Brand
Photo via Forbes Photo via Forbes Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) grew up outside Memphis, Tennessee, listening to stories an adventurous aunt told of travels abroad. At 16, she got her first passport, traveling to Paris with a high school French class. "I finally could see... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- News
Proven Skincare CEO Shares Inspiration Behind Successful Line
- 19 Dec 2018
- News
Online Retailers Aim to Shake Up the Wedding Market
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... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
Video Embed Animation by Drue Wagner and Troubadour Image + Sound The Yes Julie Bornstein (MBA 1997), cofounder and CEO; former COO, Stitch Fix Jennifer Koen-Horowitz (MBA 1997), head of brand marketing and PR Vision: The Spotify of fashion Concept: The Yes builds a... View Details
- 21 May 2016
- News
The Age of Consignment
“Ethical elimination” is the necessary corollary of ethical consumption, writes the New York Times, and HBS alumni are leading the way with online resell companies that make it easy to get rid of—and even make a profit from—your old gadgets, outdated fashion, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
A Natural Balance
Cavan Mahony and Ayla Hussain (both MBA '96) became friends and business partners through a mutual devotion to yoga and health -- and a conviction that beauty is more than skin deep. The two have joined with a third partner, supermodel... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jevan Soo
imploring others to join my refrain. I must hold a distracted, indifferent audience spellbound, convincing them that this song above all others deserves their attention. Can I appreciate notes different from my own? Like many others, I prefer familiar keys. Yet I know... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-089.pdf Publications View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Avni Patel
Audacious. Is there more beautiful a word? I fell in love with it when we first met. I, a gangly, bookish 7 year-old and it, a misunderstood jumble of letters with polarizing meanings. But to me, this word embodies everything I strive to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Beauty as a Beachhead Macro Oceans launched its first product last year, with a bioactive ingredient that can be used in skin care. The industry’s clean movement, where synthetic, hard-to-pronounce ingredients are being replaced with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
McKinsey before coming to HBS. Beck, cofounder and CEO of beauty retailer Bluemercury, tells Uberoi, a member of the student-run Retail & Luxury Goods Club, how she went from consultant to entrepreneur to retail maven, with 70-plus stores... View Details