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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
small batches, rarely applied to the skin, and drunk for health reasons. There was a narrow range of available scents. A hundred years later, the application of new technologies to extract essences from flowers and plants, and to create... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Breyer Partner, Accel Partners Innovation, Inc. Three HBS professors share their most recent research on creativity, that seemingly rare flower with a very real role in getting new ventures off the ground, reinventing existing businesses,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
tall, flowering plants, to small gardens of vegetables and herbs. Green roofs are excellent at reducing and retaining stormwater, reducing the heat island effect, and insulating the buildings. The veggies, herbs, and honey harvested at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
Gardener terms: In Rhode Island, she cultivated a “Blooming Romantic” style, an English-inspired look with lots of flower beds and garden paths; in Florida, she was “On the Wild Side,” highlighting the natural wildness of the coast with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
Ventures, and Digital Marketing Workshop. In the next several years, you’ll see an even greater flowering of offerings in this area, whether it’s AI or biotech or space. We’re getting more students at HBS, especially through the joint... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Matthias Academy Downey, CA TN Zach Flowers Chattanooga High Center for Creative Arts Chattanooga, TN WI Matt Flynn Beloit Memorial High School Beloit, WI Subjects: Civics, Government, History TX Jason Foglesong Caprock High School... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
special offerings to customers requiring special considerations because of their risk level, creating more loyal customers for the longer term. The Knot Worldwide is providing financial assistance to its vendors (like caterers, flower... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
humanity, about my failures, it was like a flower opening up, and the relationships with my friends became so much more dynamic and real, because I was willing to share that I knew that I was human and I had my failures. And so that whole... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
directed the planting of thousands of flowers and scores of trees. Reaching New Constituents Under McArthur’s deanship, the School made explicit commitments to engage new constituencies, including the local Allston-Brighton and Boston... View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
going to be "the century of Schumpeter," and I agree. The reason is that innovation and entrepreneurship are flowering all over the world in unprecedented fashion—not only in the well-publicized cases of China and India, but... View Details
- July 2017
- Teaching Note
Ebony Magazine
By: Steven Rogers and George Flowers
Teaching Note for HBS No. 317-043. View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
and climate of bordering Iran, is capable of producing saffron that bests the benchmark in color, taste, and aroma, says the cofounder of the new social enterprise company Earth2Globe. The still-small 1,700 acres of Afghanistan’s saffron View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
Artist Yazan Halwani (left) puts the finishing touches on “The Flower Salesman,” which he painted on a six- story building in Dortmund, Germany. The portrait depicts a 10-year-old Syrian refugee who became a successful View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- Portrait Project
Simon Belsham
I can choose to buy flowers from Kenya and create jobs in a poor country. Or I can buy flowers from Holland and put less harmful plane emissions in to the environment. I want to take responsibility for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Once a Fulbright…
Ruth Owades (MBA ’75), founder and former CEO of Calyx & Corolla, the pathbreaking online flower company, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Fulbright Association in May. Her Fulbright year in France, where she studied with... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
social strategy, he says. "Say I own a flower shop in Paducah, Kentucky, and there's only one other flower shop in my town. The owner of that other shop probably won't talk to me about the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
free, black Parisian, just as the model was in real life, in the period following the final French abolition of territorial enslavement in 1848. I read her to be a flower vendor, based on the fact that there are photos from the period of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Nassima Belkadi
the mountains with my friends, trying to win an endless race until one of us fell and started crying. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? A previous manager from McKinsey. I admire her leadership style and how she makes everyone in the team... View Details
David Burpee
In 1917, the same year W. A.. Burpee Company was incorporated and Burpee was named president, sales were $900,000. By 1959, Burpee had grown the company to become the largest reputed seed catalog mail order house in the world with sales over $6 million. More than 50... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining