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  • 18 Feb 2019
  • Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

If women wanted to shake up their makeup regimen 10 years ago, Sephora was the place to go. Beauty product junkies loved Sephora’s candy store-like display of sample-size face creams, glittery lip glosses, and eyeshadows in every shade... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

    Max (Francis) Factor, Jr.

    Taking over the family company after the death of his father in 1938, Factor is regarded as a pioneer in the cosmetics and makeup business. He transformed the company from a Hollywood makeup studio into a... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
    • 13 Jan 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

    When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects the work they do—now published... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 05 Nov 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

    Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying the ethnic View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    1.5 Attendance | MBA

    reason not expressly noted in this policy (e.g., board meetings). Absence from Exams All MBA students are required to take exams and submit papers or projects as scheduled. All absences, extensions, and makeups must be coordinated in... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Kate Lewis

    When I was little, I loved watching my mother get ready for work each morning. After putting on her skirt suit, Mom applied some makeup – "war paint" in her words – and let me pick out a pair of heels so she would be taller than... View Details
    • 20 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

    distinctive makeup kit, and created a YouTube channel dedicated to application techniques. “I considered it something I just like to do, not a job,” says Kenya. Years earlier, in a middle school dance class, she had discovered the power... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 01 Dec 2014
    • News

    Dressing by Number

    More Retail Revolutions Manufacturing Makeup on Demand Although it isn’t available yet, Mink, a 3D home printer that produces custom makeup, has already made serial inventor Grace Choi (MBA 2013) a cosmetics celebrity. Katrina Lake knew... View Details
    Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; cosmetics; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
    • 29 May 2013
    • Blog Post

    It’s going to be a beautiful summer…

    know, the really large beauty retailer” I replied. “Oh I think my [sister] [mom] [wife] buys her makeup there do you work at a store?” .. No, no, it’s not what you think. Or maybe it is. In any case, I am actually based out of their... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 25 Apr 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

    management ranks. Koning and Ferguson took a broader approach. They reviewed data collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between 1971 and 2014, determining the racial makeup of every large private-sector workplace in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Dec 2022
    • News

    3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)

    in June, when retailers had made their purchasing decisions in February. Sales is often about education. I asked chain retailers where they were selling dark pantyhose and makeup for brown skin, then cross-referenced that information with... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; diversity; leadership; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 10 Mar 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

    to control for in the ongoing exploration of changes in our chemical makeup on the job. Comments by others raised the question of whether our hormonal makeup might actually change on and off the job. Joe... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 29 Dec 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

    plans for future workforce makeup and training, and its search for opportunities from digital infrastructure and automation. What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology Technology doesn't drive disruption—customers do. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2018
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal

    of all sorts—black, Latino, Muslim,” she says. “We won’t make the returns we want unless our firms and our portfolio companies’ makeup are in line with the world’s makeup.” Good deal: Zylo, an Indianapolis-based company that helps... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 11 Dec 2014
    • News

    Fashion's Retail Revolution

    company Value Retail—and HBS alumni are the founders, chairmen, and CEOs of some of the sector’s hottest properties, from textile manufacturing leader Esquel Group to DIY makeup startup Mink. The business minds are suddenly as influential... View Details
    Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance
    • 29 Oct 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

    the merchandise layout, and especially, talking with and touching potential consumers. "I'd make up every woman who stopped to look," Lauder remembered. "I would show her that a three-minute makeup could change her... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 06 Mar 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

    perceived as more similar. Karmarkar says online retailers are likely to be just as surprised as she was about how strongly the category makeup of online displays affects sales. “I’ve already gotten some good feedback from people in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising
    • 10 Dec 2015
    • Blog Post

    Working with Professors at HBS

    cultural makeup in the U.S. and the world at large.  While I didn’t get to work on the case [due to scheduling conflicts], it was nonetheless rewarding to see something that I believed in be pursued with such passion by professors who I... View Details
    • 24 Sep 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

    studied reflect the makeup of 80 percent of US and 90 percent of worldwide companies. The most important “implication is that the precautionary motive to preserve the buffer was inhibiting sales before,” says Kim. “Policymakers can take... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
    • 30 May 2016
    • Blog Post

    Meet the HBS Sound Society

    point between students and friends.  Also, I would stress that Sound Society can be whatever the students want it to be — the club was created for the entire community, not just the people in the club. The goals and events of the club will evolve over time as the View Details
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