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- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
the "consumer" label altogether. It's too limiting. Deighton cites Dove's "Real Beauty" campaign, a multiphase effort with an underlying theme that subverts traditional beauty product messages of aspiration and perfection. In one ad,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
mountains were covered with a white blanket of snow. In the first rays of the morning sun they looked full of diamonds. And I thought, 'How beautiful.' "After three decades, the beauty of Latin America has not changed," Austin... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Meet the Team | Information Technology
(America’s Top Model), and Tony Hsieh (Zappos) and produced multimedia case studies on companies including Burt’s Bees, Oberoi Hotels, MINI Cooper, Kodak, IDEO, Havas, Victors & Spoils, Marquee, and Threadless. When not behind the camera for HBS, Dave pursues passion... View Details
- Profile
Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
strategy simulations. The variety helps the learning stick with you and creates a lifelike sensation of being in the protagonist’s shoes.” In the short run, Tessa wants to apply the pragmatic approaches she learns to “build beautiful... View Details
- Profile
Ravi Belani
out of my environment – get out of the Valley – so that I could reflect on what I had learned and on where I wanted to go.” Harvard’s large class sizes were also attractive. “The beautiful thing about HBS is that because of its size and... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
particular. While everyone is exceptional in some (perhaps many) areas, everyone is also massively deficient in some (perhaps many). And that’s the beauty of the HBS community. I’ve found that in whatever areas of business I’m completely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
systems, and they began raising buffalo to sell to local restaurants. The ranch today has a menagerie, including horses, chickens, ducks, a rabbit, the aforementioned rescued orphan deer, two cats, and a dog. As they settled in, the couple began looking for ways to... View Details
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion: South Korea
Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about South Korea? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. To begin, enter industry and geography... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
where the opportunity is,” Thacker explains. “It may not, overall, be the most beautiful city, but there are pockets of the city that are absolutely stunning. And there’s a great deal of culture in the city. We’ve got one of the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming Out and Finding Acceptance at HBS
disapproval. When I finished, everyone stood up and clapped, including many additional members of the LGBTSA, who had learned about my talk and had come to support me. I felt utterly surrounded by acceptance. Over the past two years, I have felt the View Details
- Web
Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Frederick Olmsted, Jr., who, with his brother John, had taken over the business from their father Frederick Law Olmsted, the great American landscape architect. The original competition guidelines noted that the HBS campus had “no natural View Details
- July 2021
- Case
A Close Shave at Squire
In 2020, just after closing a $34 million Series B financing round, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon consider how to adjust their business, Squire Technologies, to the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their barbershop technology, including tools to run a shop... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Pandemics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth, and Michael Norris. "A Close Shave at Squire." Harvard Business School Case 821-073, July 2021.
- January 2005 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Gretta Enterprises
Describes Gretchen ("Gretta") Monahan's founding and management of Gretta Enterprises, which has grown to five outlets--salons, day spas, and fashion boutiques--and $10 million in annual revenue in 10 years. Monahan's role as a television host on TLC's A Makeover Story... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Doyle, Linda S. "Gretta Enterprises." Harvard Business School Case 405-078, January 2005. (Revised July 2005.)
- October 1997
- Case
L'Oreal of Paris: Bringing 'Class to Mass' with Plenitude
By: Robert J. Dolan
L'Oreal's strategy is to "trickle down" technology over time from high-end outlets like department stores to mass-markets, such as drugstores. The mass market brand Plenitude has become the market leader in France, but even eight years after introduction in the United... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Globalization; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; France; United States
Dolan, Robert J. "L'Oreal of Paris: Bringing 'Class to Mass' with Plenitude." Harvard Business School Case 598-056, October 1997.
- Profile
Rob Self
there’s a singular theme of continuity: sustainability. “It started with the Boy Scouts,” he says. Originally intended as a way for Rob and his father to have fun on weekends (eventually joined by his two brothers), Scouting “gave me an appreciation for how View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
also planning to make it a TV station with an internet video component. And we have created a park and event space on a piece of land overlooking Lake Senba, which is a beautiful lake. It is next to Kairaku-en, which is a very historical... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 2013
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details
Keywords: FDI; Economic History; Business History; Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America
Jones, Geoffrey. Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
impacts. Seeing an opportunity in the vast amount of waste within the food system, Imperfect Foods began purchasing “number twos” directly from farmers in California’s Central Valley in 2015. Those are the slightly lumpy tomatoes or twisted carrots that don’t meet the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
business friendly. We're family and community oriented. It's football heaven—Go, Cowboys! It's full of sunshine. Can you finish this statement? My perfect workout is "An hour of moderate- to high-intensity hiking on some beautiful outdoor... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
During Globalization WavesCapitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction. This has been particularly severe in Latin America over the past century. Yet the last three decades have also seen a wave of businesses across sectors... View Details