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- 22 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity
resort or one pass.” Bringing a Breath of Fresh Air to a Stodgy Industry When you consider the total cost of ski passes, ski rentals or purchased gear, plus lessons, food, and lodging, the sport of sliding... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
"Just like everything from cosmetics to sugar, water is bought, repackaged, and sold," according to CBS MarketWatch (August 13, 1999). "Today, it's become an especially big business - a $300 billion one - as... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies across and within activities vary by activity and type of organic expansion; and (4) across-activity internal economies are asymmetric. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
and shapers of, beauty ideals. It uses case studies of three prominent firms to support the argument. During the nineteenth century, Coty and other French firms imagined Paris... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
dominate almost every industry that touches people. Food, supplements, personal care — we have to be at the table to talk about what ‘natural’ means. Many consumers assume it means safe, but that’s not necessarily true. Our products are... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
purpose-driven brands. More recently, I served as CEO of a private equity-backed beauty and wellness company. Like many career journeys, my path ebbed and flowed. When my kids... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
“But we had never thought about trying to serve for-profit businesses prior to the pandemic.” Priscilla Jiminian, Founder of Skinergy Beauty LLC, a skin care and cosmetics line... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
extremely hard to do. Worse yet, it doesn't work. The bulldog doesn't suddenly become beautiful because it was forced to wear lipstick. Nothing else about the bulldog or its behavior has changed. It makes the bulldog angry. View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which is well known for its opaque... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
trusts. Read the paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03585522.2011.617574 Working PapersWhen to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry Author:Hong Luo Abstract How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters
a different name. As a child I told my mother that I wanted to be named Nicole—no one ever made fun of, or misunderstood, the name Nicole. I hurt for my mom when I said that to her. She chose a special, beautiful name for me, View Details
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Brittani Rettig
sciences industries on large global transformations and M&A integrations. In any free moments I have, I write a fitness and wellness blog called Grit by Brit. I also teach... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
business. This really helped me determine what type of role within the beauty industry I would like most and I had 2+ years to figure it out by being a 2+2 admitted student. I... View Details
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Dove: Evolution of a Brand (TN)
By: John A. Deighton
Teaching Note for [508-047]. View Details
- October 1974 (Revised June 1981)
- Case
Clairol, Inc.: Appliance Division
Shapiro, Benson P. "Clairol, Inc.: Appliance Division." Harvard Business School Case 575-043, October 1974. (Revised June 1981.)
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through open innovation using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions.... View Details