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- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks about building her business model around providing... 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
- 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
- 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
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
A Vision for the Earth
Beautiful Planet. In this interview, he talks about the benefits of the scientific research done in space and his hopes for worldwide impact of the film. “The job that I’ve had for the past few years was as an astronaut on board the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
From investment banking, to the federal government, to a beauty startup. From North America, to Africa, to Europe, to South America. Aisha Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002), founder of Bossy Cosmetics, has a colorful, vibrant, and inspiring life... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
Frederic N. Schwartz
Schwartz orchestrated Bristol-Myers' growth as a multinational health and beauty care provider ushering in ten consecutive years of market value appreciation. He oversaw the successful acquisition of Clairol and repaid the debt in less... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 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
- Portrait Project
Emily Wang
all, and dance was doing for these children what it had always done for me: magnifying the beauty in humanity, no matter how dark or difficult the circumstances. I will not cure cancer. But for all those struggling, wandering in darkness,... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
preferences (with the beauty industry as an example). According to panelists, globalization has a homogenizing effect on diverse national cultures. Its pressures cause societies to become more alike, converging in business approaches,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- Profile
Juliane Schwetz
this summer with a sectionmate, Grace Choi, who is launching her own brand of beauty creams. “Her aim,” Juliane says, “is to educate women and make them feel beautiful inside and out. I never had the... View Details
- Web
Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
perspectives. Inventive angles, extreme close-ups, and manipulation of light and shadow could create a sense of movement, reveal new dimensions and textures, and transform the mundane and everyday into beautiful abstractions. Through... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
'70), founder of beauty tool company Tweezerman. "tweezerman: Should We Take The Business To The Next Level Of Growth?" From Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got them Right By Thomas H.... View Details
- 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. From there, I realized I wanted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Popular Series Returns
For the fourth year, HBS Club members can dial in to hear a faculty member speak on a topic of current interest, followed by a Q&A session. The Virtual Learning Series resumes September 15 with a talk on social networking by Associate Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski;... View Details
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
- Portrait Project
Svet Yordanova
My family and friends have been with me, supporting me and having faith in me. I'm sure all of us can't wait to go out in the bright, beautiful world and do wonderful things. I have many great ideas and there are so many possibilities, so... View Details
- Profile
Fereshteh Zeineddin
As Fereshteh Zeineddin sees it, beauty is much more than skin deep. Her passion for cosmetics (she was a L'Oreal sales manager for two and a half years) is rooted in her appreciation for what beauty can... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries