Beauty - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2020
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The Beautiful Discomfort of Being Betwixt and Between

15 Aug 2015
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Victoria Tsai: Skin Secrets of a Geisha

Keywords: beauty products; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2013
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Geisha Secrets

TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details

Keywords: skincare; beauty products; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2012
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Crowning Achievement

BAZEY: An advocate for burn victims. One day in 1994, Sarah Bazey (OPM 32, 2003), the owner, president, and CEO of Minnesota-based Simplex Construction Supplies, chartered a helicopter for an aerial view of one of her company's projects. When the aircraft crashed and... View Details

Keywords: Beauty pageants; Specialty Trade Contractors; Construction

22 Aug 2020
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Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of those changes has been reacting to... View Details

21 Nov 2023
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The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

26 Mar 2025
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Vikram Gandhi, From Harvard Business School, and the Beauty of Blended Finance

06 Mar 2015
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Bluemercury Grows Up

Keywords: entrepreneurship; beauty and makeup; retail industry; Retail Trade

08 Feb 2016
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CEOs Make Room For Bold And Beautiful In Harvard Business Of Entertainment, Media and Sports Course

06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale

of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

06 Dec 2021
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Turning Point: Makeover

spirit. I started a skincare brand called Tatcha to share my learning journey with others and also to create the company I had always wanted to work for. Brad Murray (MBA 2007) became my cofounder and we grew Tatcha over the next nine years into a leading View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; leadership; purpose; Asian American; beauty industry; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Aug 2022
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Hair Today

When Britney Winters (MBA 2016) tuned in to this year’s Super Bowl, she was more focused on the halftime show than the game itself. When that moment came, Winters watched as Grammy Award–winning singer Mary J. Blige rocked 40 cascading inches of wavy golden hair—a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; hair; beauty; Houston; Super Bowl